The Gourmet behind Barkin’ Doggie Biscuits

Posted on 14. Jan, 2010 by Annvi in Barkin' Doggie Bloggie, Fun Tidbits

“In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.” ~Edward Hoagland

Ok, so I have told you about how we came up with the ingredients (See Dog Cookie Recipe… Where Did It Come From?), but I haven’t gone into much detail about the gourmet baking. It is funny how life prepares you for what’s next when you aren’t really paying attention.  Let me be clear, I can bake a great cake if I have to, but I am no baker and no gourmet baker at that.  This begs the question, what the heck am I doing baking dog biscuits all day???

When Tobiah and I were dating in law school, guess who was cooking all our dinner meals?  TOBIAH.  And, did I mention that his mom is amazing baker?  Oh, and what about Tobiah’s brother?  He is a CHEF.

Is this all starting to make sense now? 

I am the one who is like oh, you are making a quesadilla? Add some spinach to that! or having a bowl of lucky charms? why don’t you balance that out with some shredded wheat in the bowl!

And Tobiah, he’s the one who is cooking up something like white chocolate croissant bread pudding.  

Tobiah put all our dog treat recipes together and I was the one who was like add a little bit of this or that.  In fact, I didn’t even pay attention to the recipes.  I figured we’d be baking all these dog cookies together, the love birds that we are.  I forgot the fact that Tobiah has a real job so that we can pursue this dream of ours.  Big oops on my part.  My first day of baking was not very fun.  In fact, I would say it was a disaster.   I’ll do us both a favor and spare you all the details. 

Despite ruining very many batches of biscuits, Tobiah and my MIL (mother-in-law) taught me some basic baking rules,  like how to measure “semi-liquid ingredients.”  Our all-natural peanut butter used in our Go Nuts! dog biscuits would be in this category of ingredients.  Supposedly, you should measure this in the dry measuring cups and not the liquid measuring cups because they are too thick to level off in the liquid measuring cups.  If you use the wrong measuring cup, you could end up with the wrong amount of ingredient.

I have come a long way to say the least.  We have gotten some killer reviews on our dog treats- and I did bake all those doggie biscuits.  Funny how this has all worked out.  I married into a family of gourmet cooking and baking superbness. Just the right mix of human ingredients to create the best dog cookie, dog treat, and dog biscuit out there!  BARKIN’ DOGGIE BISCUITS! 

And now you have the complete story behind our top secret dog biscuits recipes.

Cheers and Happy Barkin’!

Annvi and Tobiah

Tags: Baking, Cake, Cooking, dog biscuits, Gourmet Dog Treats, Law School, Mother-in-Law, Tobiah