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"Horse Treats"

Easy Horse Treat Recipes Your Horse Will Love!

"Why buy expensive horse treats when making your own is so simple and fun!"

Your horse will love your homemade treats.

All horses love treats and your horse will love your homemade treats. Making horse cookies and other goodies is easy and can be done using ingredients that you most likely already have.

In addition to giving the traditional apple or carrot treat, here is a small recipe collection for some of our horse's favorite treats. We don't think she has a particlar favorite and seems to enjoy them all.

Horse Carrot/Apple Cakes

Ingredients

• 1 carrot
• 1 apple
• 1 cup molasses
• 2 1/2 cups oats
• 2 Tablespoons oil

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees
2. Grate the carrot and apple
3. Mix together all ingredients
4. Place mixture in baking tray
5. Bake for 40 minutes or until golden brown
6. Cool for four hours in refrigerator

Horse Carrot Crispies

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup oatmeal
• 1/3 cup molasses
• 1/2 cup water
• 3/4 cup flour
• 3/4 cup bran
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 apple
• 2 carrots

Directions

1. preheat oven to 400 degrees
2. grease muffin tin
3. shred apple and carrots
4. mix apple and carrots with molasses
5. add brown sugar, water, flour and oatmeal
6. scoop dough into muffin tin and sprinkle each muffin with brown sugar
7. bake for 30 to 45 minutes

Oat Carrot Horse Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup uncooked oats
• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup shredded carrots
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
• 1/4 cup molasses

Directions

• Mix ingredients in bowl
• Make small balls and place on greased cookie sheet
• Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until golden brown

Horse Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup oatmeal
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 2 carrots or an apple
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 cup flour
• 1/4 cup water
• Pinch of salt

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
2. Roughly chop carrots or apple and mix with dry ingredients
3. Stir in all wet ingredients and the fill a baking sheet
4. Score into sections and spray with a small amount of oil
5. Bake for 15 minutes

Horse Muffins

Ingredients

• 3 cups oats
• 2 Tablespoons of honey/molasses
• 2 cups of water
• 1 shredded apple
• 3 tablespoons of flour
• 2 tablespoons of brown sugar/sugar
• 2 drops of food coloring
• small handful crushed peppermints
• small box raisins

Directions

1. Mix oats, water, and honey.
2. Microwave for 2 minutes.
3. Add shredded apple, brown sugar, crushed peppermints, food coloring, flour, and raisins.
4. Place back in microwave for 2 more minutes.
5. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
6. Put mixture into muffin tin. Put in oven for about 15 minutes or until lightly golden brown. Note: the muffins do not rise.

Bridle Delight

Ingredients

• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup oats
• 2 cups of water
• 1/2 cup finely chopped carrots
• 1/2 cup finely chopped apples
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons canola oil
• 4 peppermint candies
• 1/3 cup molasses

Directions

1. Mix together all ingredients in a large bowl.
2. Roll into one inch balls and flatten.
3. Put in oven at 325 for 20 minutes.

Sweet Horse Treat

Ingredients

• One cup rolled oats
• 1/4 cup water
• A pinch of honey
• A pinch of smooth peanut butter
• 1/4 cup of your horse's favorite grain
• 1 small carrot

Directions

1. Put the rolled oats in the bowl and add the water.
2. Add a pinch of honey and smooth peanut butter.
3. Add your horse's favorite grain and stir. If it is not sticking add more honey.
4. Cut up 1 small baby carrot. Roll the carrot pieces in the mixture to make little balls (not too small though).
5. Put the carrot balls in the refrigerator to harden then serve.

Apple-Carrot Horse Biscuit

Ingredients

• Honey
• 1/2 apple
• Grated carrots and carrot chunks
• Milk
• Whole-wheat flour
• Oatmeal

Directions

1. Mix grated carrots and carrot chunks, grated apple, oatmeal, whole-wheat flour and honey in a bowl.
2. Stir until sticky and doughy.
3. Add a little milk to the mixture milk to make it moist, but still doughy.
4. Shape the dough into balls and bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
5. Let cool.

Apple Horse Treat

Ingredients

• 2 sliced apples
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup oats
• 2 tablespoons margarine

Directions

1. Melt the 2 tablespoons of margarine at a medium temperature in a sauce pan.
2. Add brown sugar and stir until it starts to boil then bring to a simmer.
3. Dip apple slices in the sugar mixture, then roll them in the oats.
4. Let cool.

Barn Cookies

• 4 cups grain (like oats, steam-rolled)
• 8 tablespoons flour
• 1/2 cup molasses
• 3/4 cup water

Directions

1. Combine all ingredients in large mixing bowl.
2. Stir with large spoon until mixture is the consistency of thick cookie dough.
3. Drop tablespoons of dough on a greased cookie sheet, spacing cookies 1 inch apart.
4. Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour or until crisp.
5. Remove from oven, and cool for 30 minutes.

Easy Horse Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup carrot grated
• 1 apple grated
• 2 Tablespoons corn oil
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 cup rolled oats
• 1 cup flour

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Lightly grease cookie sheet.
3. In a large bowl, mix carrot, apple, corn oil and molasses together.
4. Fold in salt, oats and flour until well mixed.
5. Spread dough out in one big piece on the cookie sheet.
6. Score dough with a knife to make it easier to break apart after baking. (Or, roll dough out and cut with cookie cutters)
7. Bake for 20 minutes or until brown.
8. Let cool.