Birthday Cake: Banana & Honey

RECIPE: BANANA & HONEY CAKE!
Made with Costa Rica cost-effective ingredients. 

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Hercules' 1st Birthday!!

Hercules' 1st Birthday! It's not easy finding cost-effective pupcake ingredients living down in Tamarindo, Costa Rica. Niko's been spoiled with simple things like peanut butter but since a small jar of peanut butter costs close to $7 USD, we will just have to improvise with new ingredients. This time we used Banana & Honey frosted with Basil cream cheese & Dulce de Leche. 

Birthday party at the office this morning for Hercules with Raimundo & Niko. Dingo, West and Pacho didn't show up to work. 

Part I: The Cake

1      cup all purpose flour
1      teaspoon baking soda
2      medium sized ripe bananas mashed
2      tablespoons honey
1      egg
1      cup water

Part II: Frosting

1/2   ounce fat free cream cheese
2      tablespoons plain greek yogurt
1      tablespoon vanilla
1      teaspoon honey

Yields: 6-8 pupcakes

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DIRECTIONS

The Cake

1.   Pre-heat oven to 375ºF
2.   Line a cupcake tray with Spray a paper cupcake holders.
3.   In a large mixing bowl, mix together the wet ingredients (egg, mashed bananas, honey).
4.   Add in flour and baking soda.
5.   Add water last, as needed in order to create a mixture and consistency of a typical cake batter
6.   Pour the batter into the pan and bake for ~35 minutes
7.   Remove the cake from the pan and allow it to cool completely before frosting.


Frosting

1.   Use a spatula and frost each pupcake with cream cheese
2.   Spread frosting over the cake.

Banana & Honey Pupcakes with Basil cream cheese frosting & Dulce de Leche. 

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This recipe has been taste-tested and approved by KoBear.

Disclaimer: The result of these baking recipes may result in having a dog permanently plastered to your kitchen floor, most likely by the oven. 
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Pumpkin Cookies

Dead Cat Bones . Halloween 2013

Pumpkin Dog Cookies. Another Halloween treat we made for the friends of Ko&Gabz. Simple ingredients, easy to make and the dogs go absolutely nuts for them. Pumpkin is an amazing source of Vitamin E, Magnesium, Phosphorous and dietary fiber. One of the best natural and delicious remedies for when our pack gets an upset stomach, diarrhea or even constipation. It's also inexpensive and readily found at grocery stores, low in cholesterol, saturated fats and sodium so why not make it into an everyday treat? 

This year we even created our own Halloween label to fancy up the packaging to hand out to our friends. It was a great hit and everyone loved them! It was also a nice surprise to the canine co-workers in the office :)

DEAD CAT BONES

Antidote For: Werewolf behaviors, Howling at the moon, uncontrollable transformations, diarrhea, constipation, upset stomach.

Instructions for use: For best results, serve with eye of newt and frog's breath.

Download our printable labels here: Dead Cat Bones. 

RECIPE: PUMPKIN DOG COOKIES

Ingredients

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2         Eggs

3/4      cup canned pumpkin
2 1/2   cup All Purpose Flour 
1/2      cup milk
1         teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
1/2      tablespoon of salt

Instructions

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1.    Preheat oven to 350ºF
2.    In a medium sized bowl, blend together the wet ingredients: eggs, pumpkin and milk. 
3.    Add salt and flour. 
4.    Roll to approximately 1/2 inch thick. Cut out cookies. 
5.    Place on non-greased cookie sheet about 1 inch apart. 
6.    Bake for 20 minutes, flip over cookies and bake an additional 20 minutes.
7.    Enjoy!

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This recipe has been taste-tested and approved by TheHuskies: Ko&Gabz.

Disclaimer: The result of these baking recipes may result in having a dog permanently plastered to your kitchen floor, most likely by the oven. 

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Kabu's Pumpkin Brownies

This deliciously smelling recipe was passed on to us from the breeder of all 3 of my dogs, Kabu Siberians. It not only smells amazing, but tastes delicious to our human taste buds too! A brownie that you can actually share with your canine pooch? What?! 

Canned pumpkin is low in cholesterol, saturated fats and sodium. It's also a good source of Vitamin E, Magnesium, Phosphorous and dietary fiber! Because pumpkin is rich in dietary fibers, it's an amazing natural ingredient to help with your dog's digestive system from diarrhea to constipation, absorbing excess water from the stool (diarrhea) or softening it from an upset stomach. Wouldn't you prefer spoonfuls of pumpkin over a powdery pill of Imodium? ... And, that's why we call it "poo-glue"! 


This year, we decided to spend some quality pack time in Ko.nut bakery harvesting "bat droppings" for the season. We even created our own nikosjournal label for it and agreed to share it.  

In addition to our bat droppings, it was also time to harvest the Dead Cat Bones for the season and hand it out to our canine friends. Both our Bat Droppings and Dead Cat Bones are made primarily with pumpkin so the canine family can enjoy trick-or-treating too - how appropriate! :)

Download printable labels: Bat Droppings.

♥ Kabu's Pumpkin Brownies: "Good as poo-glue!" ♥

RECIPE: KABU'S PUMPKIN BROWNIES

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INGREDIENTS

2         Large Eggs

1         cup (250mL) Canned pure pumpkin
1/3      cup (85mL) Canola oil
2         tablespoons honey

1 1/4   cups flour (whole wheat/oat or some of each)
2         tablespoons Ground flax seed powder or oat bran
1         teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
1         teaspoon of baking soda
           Pinch of salt for rising

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DIRECTIONS

1.    Preheat oven to 350ºF
2.    In a meidum sized bowl, mix eggs, pumpkin, canola oil and honey.
3.    Add flax seed, cinnamon (optional), baking soda, flour and salt.
4.    Stir until mixture is smooth.
5.    Scrape batter into an 8x8 baking pan sprayed with non-stick spray (or greased).
6.    Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown and springy to touch.
7.    Cut into squares and serve (humans & canines).

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This recipe has been taste-tested and approved by TheHuskies: Ko&Gabz.

Disclaimer: The result of these baking recipes may result in having a dog permanently plastered to your kitchen floor, most likely by the oven. 

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