Need recipe for DIY horse treats

[winfieldfarm]

State Line tack has dry mix you add water to and bake for horse cookies. it’s listed as $3.99 but shipping is $9.99! I want to give this cute gift to my barn full of clients and lesson kids but I am NOT paying that much per person, especially since I give homemade chocolates too.

I need a dry ingredients list that I can mix together and give as an “add water and bake” horse treats gift. I’m running out of time to put together a decent Christmas around here. Bah Humbug!

[LovelyBay]

You have a PM!

[seeuatx]

I just posted this recipe earlier tonight in the H/J forum on the tacky idea/gift from trainer thread. My BO gave the ingredients in a glass jar with a recipe card for all the horses in the barn several years ago tied on with red and green baling twine (from our hay too, lol). I loved it. Also one year she did a peppermint bran mash mix in the jar.

2 cups sweet feed or equivalent feed
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar (white or brown)
(*these three in the jar… directions to add oil and H2O at home so mix still looks good and not clumpy)
2 Tbsp vegetable oil (cold pressed is healthier)
½ cup water or apple juice

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Using a tablespoon, drop round clumps of batter on a greased and floured
pan
Bake approximately 20 minutes

Makes about 5 dozen cookies
Let sit a few days until hard and crunchy. (*Mine likes them a bit mushy though and also if I sprinkle some crushed candy cane or one red/white peppermint on top before it sets)

[Tobias]

I made a delicious recipe for my giftee for the SS this year!

there are not many dry ingredients though.

2 cups of shredded carrots
2 cups of uncooked oatmeal
1/2 cup of crushed peppermints
1/4 cup of molasses
1/2 cup of flour

Mix first 4 ingredients together until well blended, then add flour, you may need a bit more or less flour, just enough to be able to make balls with the cookies. Place on cookie sheet and bake for about 30 min. Or until firm. I sometimes over baked them a bit to make them crunchy.

I made this up, all the horses that I tried them on LOVED them. I use a Kitchen Aid mixer to shred all the carrots, so it’s pretty easy for me.

[Rallycairn]

One thought, to convert many recipes to “dry” (except for adding fat/liquids at home), what about using that dried molasses product from the feed store to substitute in recipes that call for molasses? One less ingredient for the giftee to have to add at home. That might work for Tobias’s recipe, e.g., minus the shredded carrots.

[Margaret.c]

Paddock cakes?

Does anyone have a recipie for something like paddock cakes? They’re my favorites and was looking for a recipie!

[Alibhai_s_Alibar]

[QUOTE=Margaret.c;8057284]
Does anyone have a recipie for something like paddock cakes? They’re my favorites and was looking for a recipie![/QUOTE]

This is my mom’s recipe for soft horse treats, created for my dearly-departed, somewhat toothless Alibar:

https://rockandracehorses.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/alibars-bon-bons-soft-horse-cookie-recipe/

[Margaret.c]

Thanks so much!