Brie’s Banana and Honey Dog Treats

The amount of water needs to be adjusted to one cup, add more as necessary!

Do not add 2 C of water to begin with. Mix everything except flour. I would start with 1/2 C water then add flour, if needed add more water as needed otherwise you best have a lot of extra flour.

The dough was really hard to bite into. My dog was having a hard time tiring to eat it. I followed the provided recipe. I don’t know if I did it wrong

First of all, this is a great recipe, but with a couple tweaks, second, if you are an avid baker, you will know that on first glance, 2 cups of water is way too much for 4 1/2 cups of ANY flour, and that you should NEVER add the liquid all at one time, if you are baking anything that you want to roll out. So, I am assuming that those complaining of this dough being “too sticky” no matter how much flour you use are beginners, or they would know, that 2 cups is too much to start with, and to slowly add the water until you get a rollable consistency. That being said, I substituted sodium free chicken broth. If you can’t find salt free, use low sodium or make your own, and you can use ANY chicken, first boil it, then use the broth; you can also chop the chicken in tiny pieces and add to the recipe, but that does make it a totally different recipe! It also doesn’t matter if you have bananas in it and are thinking the furbaby’s want “sweet,” trust me, I have created many of my own recipes and they love just about any combination in their treats! I use the broth instead of water and add a small amount at a time, STOP adding the liquid when there is just enough to be able to roll the dough. I ended up using about 1 1/4 cups of broth. I use a silicone mat to roll my dough as well. First sprinkle some of the flour on the mat, flour your rolling pin as well, then roll out to about 1/4 inch. **TIP I keep latex gloves to use for kneading and mixing, worth buying a box if you bake a lot!

If possible I would have rated lower! This recipe is a Hot Mess! (I never rate anything a 1) Ratio’s are way off, fortunately I have a Culinary background and was able to salvage it as I was in a pinch.

If you’re like me and you’re wondering why in the world your dough is so sticky, welcome to the club! I was trying to bake these treats for the dog shelter for Christmas and the dough was so watery it was impossible to knead it till it’s not. Had to use way too much flour! Only to find out in the comment section that you’re suppose to only add 1 cup of water! I’m actually so mad because I thought I messed something up

i add more flour the the dough.

work great, dogs loved

This never did become anything other than a sticky mess. Definitely not worth the effort.

It was pretty good, it was pretty sticky no matter how much I kneaded it but my dog loves them!

Holy not enough flour! I doubled the recipe so that would suggest I use 9 cups of flour total. Ha! Try like 2 bags and its still not stiff enough to roll I have to refrigerate and cut of portions and roll while they’re fridge cold… like there is no way I was off on my measurements of other ingredients enough to justify adding more than double what was called for.

Followed directions exactly, so wet and sticky. They were terrible my lab didn’t even want to eat them. Instead of 4 1/2 cups of whole wheat flour I needed to keep adding another two cups! What a waste of flour ( hard to come by during this pandemic) and time. Never again.

The dough is waaay to sticky, used a entire bag of organic wheat flour and wound up throwing away the entire mix. I see where the original submitter says to use 1 cup of water….ummmm…too late! You should remove this recipe and re-post with the correct measurements. What a waste of time and money.

I made the recipe without reading the reviews. Please edit the recipe to read what you meant about the amount of water. I was making these to sell and it’s a mess. Thanks!

To preface this: PLEASE read TheBritishBaker’s review before making these! My dog goes crazy over these. They didn’t take nearly as long to bake as the recipe suggests, so that was nice. The dough was incredibly sticky and was only workable after adding around 6 cups of flour and refrigerating it for a few hours. They’re easy to make (like most dog treats) and, even though I didn’t expect my dog to like them because she isn’t a huge fan of banana, she really likes them! I feel this recipe could be a lot easier if it’s done without as much water.

My dogs loved them and super easy to make!!

I made these following the recipe exactly. Unfortunately, the dough was too sticky. I had to add another almost cup of flour to be able to roll the dough. It was worth the trouble though. My dogs loved them!

It was delicious best dog treats ever my dog loved it

Generally, I read reviews before cooking, but did not this time. I guess I’m not sure why they haven’t edited the recipe, so that people don’t keep having problems with it. I attempted to solve the problem by adding a bunch of oats, but still, the batter was much too moist to roll. Instead, I dropped the batter by the teaspoon, as you would with cookies. They turned out fine, and of course my dogs think they’re great!

It’s too sticky. The author made a change under comments but it was already too late for me. Please change the actual recipe so no one else wastes all of these ingredients.

These were sticky initially when I put them onto my floured counter, so I added another 2 cups of flour as I worked the dough, then I made sure my counter was well floured before I rolled these out…the dogs loved these.