If you can’t take your pups on a tropical vacation with you, bring the island vibes to them with these tropical Pineapple Dog Treats. Made with fresh pineapple and coconut oil, these delightful treats will have your pups jump for joy.
I love tropical flavors that bring me back to one of my Hawaiian vacations like these pineapple truffles and this pineapple tart with coconut frangipane. And I want to share that with my little fur babies via these pineapple dog treats.
I kept these treats simple, with only 4 ingredients, to show off the fresh pineapple and coconut oil flavor. No other extracts or spices are needed to make them shine. Similar to my apple dog treats and my peanut butter banana oatmeal dog treats, these are also made with oat flour, pulverized from rolled oats. So if your pups have a wheat allergy, these would be perfectly safe for them to consume.
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Helpful tools
You’ll need a food processor or a blender to process rolled oats into flour and to puree the fresh pineapple.
Cookie cutters are optional since you can just cut the dough with a knife but they’re cute!
Ingredients and substitutions
As always, you’ll find the complete list of ingredients and quantities in the recipe card at the end of this post. Below are some notes and substitution tips:
- Pineapple – I use fresh pineapple here but you can substitute canned pineapple in juice. Don’t buy the one in syrup to avoid added sugar.
- Coconut oil – I used coconut oil for the extra tropical flavor, but you can use any cooking oil you have available.
- Egg
- Oat flour – I used old-fashioned rolled oats and grind them in my food processor into oat flour. But nowadays you can just get oat flour in a bag and skip a step.
How to make pineapple dog treats
The following instructions, step-by-step photos, and tips are here to help you visualize how to make the recipe. You can always skip straight to the printable recipe card at the end of this post.
Step 1: Process the rolled oats into oat flour in your food processor.
Step 2: Dump out the oat flour and puree the pineapple without washing it.
Step 3: Beat together pineapple puree, melted coconut oil and egg in a mixing bowl. Add the oat flour to form a dough.
Step 4: Roll the dough out, cut with cookie cutter or a knife, and bake!
More baker’s tips
- I used 1 cup of chopped fresh pineapple which yielded almost 1 cup of puree. This can vary depending on how much fresh pineapple you can pack in a cup. Add more or less oat flour accordingly, judging by the texture and stickiness of the dough.
- This recipe yields 38 treats with the 2” bone shape cutter and 2” pineapple shape cutter. You will end up with more or less treats depending on the size of your cookie cutter.
- Each cup of oat flour is about 4.5 ounces in weight. So if you ground up 13.5 ounces of rolled oats, this should yield 3 cups of oat flour. I recommend grounding up at least 14 to 15 ounces so you have extra flour for rolling and also in case you need to add more flour to the batter to get the desired dough consistency.
- You can bake multiple pans at once, place the racks on the top and lower third of the oven. But make sure there is enough space in the oven for the heat to circulate or the treats will burn. Switch pans position half way through baking.
Storage
These pineapple dog treats will stay fresh in an air tight container between 3-5 days at room temperature when the weather is cool. During hot weather, it is safest to store homemade treats in the refrigerator since they do not contain any preservatives.
FAQs
Yes, fresh pineapple is safe for dogs. Since this recipe uses fresh pineapple in the dough, you don’t have to worry about overfeeding your dogs fresh fruits, which can give them stomach issue, since each treat contains just a small amount of pineapple.
If your dogs enjoy these treats, check out my other dog treat recipes in the archive!
Pineapple Dog Treats with Oat Flour
Equipment
- Pineapple Cookie Cutter
Ingredients
- 1 cup chopped fresh pineapple
- 2 tablespoon coconut oil
- 1 large egg
- 3 cup oat flour (approximately 13.5 oz or 383 g)
- Extra oat flour for rolling
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Ground enough rolled oats in a food processor to make 3 cup of coarse flour. Set aside.
- Puree 1 cup of chopped pineapple in the same food processor, this will yield just over ¾ cup.
- Add pureed pineapple, egg, and coconut oil to a medium mixing bowl. Mix with a whisk until smooth.
- Add oat flour to the mixture and use a spatula or mixing spoon to combine.
- The finished dough should be something between pie and bread dough, not too sticky and easy to handle.
- Sprinkle some oat flour on a cutting board or counter and turn the dough out, knead and shape into a disk.
- Roll dough out to about ¼" thick. Cut out shapes with cookie cutters, and place on a parchment paper lined baking sheet about ½” apart.
- Reshape scraps and roll out again to ¼” thick and continue cutting out treats until finished.
- Dip the cookie cutter in some oat flour each time you cut so the cutter doesn’t get sticky.
- Bake for 20 minutes, rotate pan and flip treats upside down so they can brown evenly. Bake for another 20 minutes.
- Turn off the heat, and allow treats to further dry out in the oven.
- Store cool treats in an air tight container.
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These sound absolutely delicious! Have you ever tried dehydrating them for longer shelf life? I plan on sharing our next pineapple with our sweet rescue Lucky using your recipe!!!!
Hi Sue, thank you for making these! I usually make smaller batches since my dogs are tiny so I haven’t tried dehydrating them further. You can certainly do that! Let me know if you try and how long they last you.
How long would these treats last? Do they have to stay in the fridge?
Hi Berta, the answer to this question is under the tips section in the post: Treats will stay fresh in an air tight container between 3-5 days at room temperature when the weather is cool. During hot weather, it is safest to store homemade treats in the refrigerator since they do not contain any preservatives.
Glad to have found this recipe made with fresh pineapple. I have been picking up pineapple dog treats when we visit the big island. Where did you end up finding the pineapple cookie cutter??
Hi Robyn, I hope your dogs will love these! I got the cookie cutter from Sur la Table over the summer. I think they are sold out though. I would search Amazon or Etsy, you should be able to find some that will work.
Pups treats with pineapple – how fascinating! I think I would try one of these myself – they look lovely and so healthy too! Very creative – thanks for sharing.
Thanks for stopping by Tricia! These do smell really good, definitely will tempt you into trying one yourself 😉
I would eat these too! Lucky ????
They do smell good enough for me to eat, had to resist the temptation, lol!
Such a cute dog treat! I love that pineapple cookie cutter. I am sure that my dog, Teddy, would devour them all!
Thank you Marie! I know mine did! 😀
These dog treats are wonderful. I know so many people that are always looking for homemade treats for their dogs. Pinning.
Thank you Ginny!
They are adorable, I will pass on this recipe to my sister who is a vet. What a nice treat for her 7 dogs
7 DOGS!! WOW she must have a full household 😀