Dog-Approved Strawberry Dog Treats

These drool-worthy Strawberry Dog Treats will have your furry friend’s tail wagging before they even leave the oven! The secret? Freeze-dried strawberries that pack a powerful punch of flavor—sure to get their noses sniffing and their taste buds begging for more.

A stack of 4 bone-shaped strawberry dog treats.

I love the addition of freeze-dried strawberries in these strawberry dog treats, it packs a good punch of strawberry flavor or should I say aroma since I didn’t actually eat them. Although I considered trying one since they smell so good! Every time I opened the jar to get my dog a treat, it made me happy to take a whiff of that strawberry scent.

🐶 Mochi and Sriracha’s take

FLAVOR: so much strawberry flavor! We can also taste oatmeal with a little bit of nuttiness from whole wheat flour. Oh, eggy with a hint of sweet honey. Woof woof!
TEXTURE: satisfyingly crunchy!
EASE: mom said it wasn’t hard but she would say it’s a medium for effort.

Notes on key ingredients

The strawberries – I used fresh as well as freeze-dried strawberries in these better-than-bakery dog treats. The fresh strawberries are pureed and used as a liquid ingredient but the freeze-dried strawberries are used as mix-ins to add more flavor. You can omit them if you can’t find them.
The flours – Like these Peanut Butter Apple Dog Treats, I used oat flour in this strawberry dog treats recipe, but I added some whole wheat flour to soak up the extra water in the pureed strawberries. Strawberry contains 92% water while apple only contains 81% to 84% water, you will be able to tell the difference when you mix the dough. If you want to keep it grain free, just add more oat flour instead of whole wheat flour, you may need to add quite a bit more to get to the same dough texture.

Tips for making strawberry dog treats

I made my own oat flour from old-fashion rolled oats. You can do the same using a food processor or high speed blender or just purchase oat flour at the store.
You can use the same food processor to puree the strawberries and make the dough too. But you don’t have to, you can also make the dough by hand if you don’t have a food processor.
I used a 1.5” heart-shaped cookie cutter and a 2” bone-shaped cookie cutter for this recipe and it yielded 43 treats all together.
If making larger treats, you will need to bake them longer to dry them out properly to get crunchy treats.
After turning off the oven, you can leave the treats in there with the door cracked open for a few hours to give them more time to dry out. This will also help them last longer at room temp.

Storage

Store these berry dog treats in a clean jar, an airtight container or in a ziploc bag. They will last about 1 – 2 weeks at room temperature, up to 2 months in the refrigerator and up to 8 months in the freezer.

I recommend keeping just a week worth of treats in a jar in the cupboard for your dogs and store excess in the refrigerator to ensure your homemade treats don’t go moldy.

Two dog treats stacked across one another.

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Strawberry Dog Treats Recipe

5 from 2 votes

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Prep Time: 20

Cook Time: 1

Total Time: 1 20

Yield: treats

Author: Trang

Equipment

Ingredients

▢ 2 cup oat flour (about 8 oz or 227 g)
▢ ½ cup freeze dried strawberry (break into small pieces)
▢ 1 cup chopped strawberry (yield ½ cup pureed, 113 g)
▢ 1 large egg
▢ 1 tablespoon honey
▢ ¼ cup whole wheat flour (34 g)
▢ Extra flour for rolling

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 325°F.
Ground approximately 8 oz of rolled oats in a food processor until coarse flour forms. This will yield just about 2 cups. Transfer this to a mixing bowl and mix it with freeze-dried strawberries. Set aside. A high speed blender works too or simply use store bought oat flour.
2 cup oat flour, ½ cup freeze dried strawberry
Wash and hull the fresh strawberries, chop and measure 1 cup, puree in a food processor, this will yield approximately ½ cup. Add egg and honey, and process until a smooth mixture forms. You can also mix everything in a mixing bowl if you're not using a food processor here.
1 cup chopped strawberry, 1 large egg, 1 tablespoon honey
Add oat flour with freeze dried strawberries to the mixture and process until a dough forms. If making by hand, just use a spatula or mixing spoon to combine. The process photos below is from my Apple Dog Treats recipe but the idea/process is the same.
At this point, the dough will be slightly wet. Incorporate whole wheat flour, a little at a time up to ¼ cup, until the dough is dry enough to handle.
¼ cup whole wheat flour
Sprinkle some more flour on a cutting board or your countertop and turn the dough out, knead and shape into a disk.
Extra flour for rolling
Roll dough out to about ¼" thick. Cut out shapes with cookie cutter large enough for your dog, and place on a parchment paper lined baking sheet about ½” apart. The process photos below is from my Apple Dog Treats recipe but the idea/process is the same.
Reshape scraps and roll out again to ¼” thick and continue cutting out treats until finished. Dip the cookie cutter in some flour each time you cut so the cutter doesn’t get sticky.
Bake for 50 minutes to an hour, flip treats upside down and rotate pan half way through baking time so they can brown evenly.
Remove baking pan from oven and let cool on a cooling rack.

Notes

I used a 1.5” heart-shaped cookie cutter and a 2” bone-shaped cookie cutter for this recipe and it yielded 43 treats all together.
If making larger treats, you will need to bake them longer to dry them out properly to get crunchy treats.
After turning off the oven, you can leave the treats in there with the door cracked open for a few hours to give them more time to dry out. This will also help them last longer at room temp.
These treats will last about 1 – 2 weeks at room temperature, up to 2 months in the refrigerator and up to 8 months in the freezer.

Nutrition

Serving: 12g | Calories: 27kcal

Course: Dog Treat

Cuisine: Dog Food

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