It’s crazy how expensive commercial pill hiding treats are for dogs! Not only that but they’re made with absolute trash ingredients – lots of sugar, like molasses, and unnecessarily filler ingredients to get that soft, pliable texture, like glycerin. I said no more and decided to make my own pill hiding dough for my dog with two simple and actually healthy ingredients.
This no-bake recipe is so easy, so simple you’ll wonder why you ever wasted money month after month when this is a fraction of the cost.
Moreover, you can easily switch up the ingredients for this recipe, and I share alternatives and additions at the end of this post. The two main ingredients in this recipe are sweet potato and coconut flour. THAT’S IT.
2-Ingredient no-bake pill hiding treats for dogs
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No-bake pill hiding treats for dogs (2 Simple Ingredients)
Ingredients
- 1 Medium Sweet potato (1 medium sweet potato can make over a week's worth of marble-sized pill treats at 2 treats per day)
- Coconut flour (For amount details, read the instructions)
Instructions
- Making the treats takes the most time, initially, but once you've cooked your sweet potato you'll have enough for days if not weeks.
- You can cook your sweet potato however you choose, whether baking or boiling it. I went with boiling whole. This takes roughly 20-30 minutes depending on your size sweet potato – same with baking.
- Once your sweet potato is cooked, you're going to have to factor how you'll store it. Cooked sweet potato lasts up to 5 days in the fridge, and months in the freezer. If you don't think you'll go through it all in that time, you can gauge 5-days worth and freeze the rest. For me, one small/medium sweet potato will last more than 5 days for my dog, so I went ahead and froze about 2/3 of it for later use.
- With the amount of cooked sweet potato you'll be storing in the fridge, now it's time to mix in the coconut flour.*Important: DO NOT use regular flour. Raw flour cannot be consumed unless cooked, so beware of other recipes on the internet that call for APF or wheat flour.
- My personal rule of thumb is a 1:1 ratio (1 part sweet potato and 1 part coconut flour). To break this down further, for every 1 tablespoon of sweet potato add 1 tablespoon of coconut flour. But you are free to add more or less. The consistency should not be sticky but should be fairly easily pliable – you should be able to roll it into little balls in your hands.
- Place the mixture in an air-tight container and keep refrigerated for up to 5 days. When you're ready to give, simply spoon out a portion large enough to encase the pill.*Make enough to freeze! Simply portion out an amount for 5 days, roll into balls and freeze. Defrost a ball when you need it and place into the fridge. Consistency does not change frozen to thawed!
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Ingredient additions and alternatives
There are so many ways you can make these treats versatile and exciting for your pet while offering them all around nutrition. You can easily swap sweet potato for (though you may have to adjust the coconut flour ratio accordingly):
- Butternut squash
- Canned pumpkin
- Regular potato
- Peanut butter
- Mashed banana
- Yogurt
You can easily swap coconut flour for (though you may have to adjust the ratio accordingly): *Reminder – raw APF cannot be consumed, and must be cooked, so I will not be recommending regular flour or wheat flour.
- Cassava flour
- Almond flour
- Barley flour
- Oat flour
You can also add to this recipe (though you may have to adjust the coconut flour ratio accordingly), with ingredients like:
- Chia seeds
- Ground flax seeds
- Brewer’s nutritional yeast
- Crushed berries
- Cream cheese
- Manuka/raw honey