All horses love treats and your horse will love your homemade horse 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 homemade horse treats provided to us by various folks and gathered from around the web. Our horse 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
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees
- Grate the carrot and apple
- Mix together all ingredients
- Place mixture in baking tray
- Bake for 40 minutes or until golden brown
- Cool for four hours in refrigerator
Sweet Feed Horse Cookies
Ingredients
- powdered sugar
- 4 cups sweet feed
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 3 cups molasses
- 2 grated carrots
- 2 grated apples
- 1/2 cup flour
Directions
- preheat oven to 400 degrees
- mix together all ingredients, except powdered sugar
- form into large balls and press flat onto greased cookie sheet
- bake for 20 minutes
- cool, then sprinkle with powdered sugar
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
- preheat oven to 400 degrees
- grease muffin tin
- shred apple and carrots
- mix apple and carrots with molasses
- add brown sugar, water, flour and oatmeal
- scoop dough into muffin tin and sprinkle each muffin with brown sugar
- 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
Banana-Glazed Apple
Ingredients
- 1 apple
- 1 banana
- 1 handful of ice cubes
Directions
- Peel and cut banana
- Place banana and ice cubes into a blender; chop and blend until creamy
- Cut apple top off and carve out the middle
- Fill the apple with the blended banana
- Pour rest of banana over the sides of the apple
Barn Cookies
- 4 cups grain (like oats, steam-rolled)
- 8 tablespoons flour
- 1/2 cup molasses
- 3/4 cup water
Directions
- Combine all ingredients in large mixing bowl.
- Stir with large spoon until mixture is the consistency of thick cookie dough.
- Drop tablespoons of dough on a greased cookie sheet, spacing cookies 1 inch apart.
- Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour or until crisp.
- Remove from oven, and cool for 30 minutes.