I love to cook and have spent a few messy evenings in the kitchen playing Mad Cowgirl Scientist, concocting a number of homemade horse treat recipes.  As I have a number of willing testers who are eager to taste my recipes. 

In my humble opinion, I have established an exceptional horse treat test kitchen … and in the interest of good karma, I would like to share my recipes with you (and your horse, of course)!

Without further ado, here’s the first tasty tidbit from my gourmet horse treat collection:

Peppermint Biscuits
Yields: A Bunch

2 cups  Flour
1 tbsp.  Baking Powder
1 tsp.  Salt
1 tbsp.  Sugar
1/3 cup  Shortening
1 cup  Milk
1 tbsp.  Peppermint Flavoring
1/2 cup  Crushed Peppermints
A Bunch of Starlight Peppermints

• Step 1:  Mix the dry ingredients together.
• Step 2:  Add the Milk, Shortening and Peppermint Flavoring and mix into a gooey ball of dough.
  Step 3:  Add the Crushed Peppermints (to make the crushed peppermints I just throw a small handful at a time into the food processor or blender – a 1/2 cup is an estimate, you can use more or less).
• Step 4:  Spray mini muffin tin with a non-stick cooking spray (I recommend the kind with four in it for baking as it makes the treats pop-out super easy).
• Step 5:  Fill each muffin slot about half way full of dough (they’ll rise a bit).
• Step 6: Bake at 425F for about 5 minutes (till they are rising, but not gold on top).
• Step 7: Remove from oven and press one starlight mint (be sure to unwrap them!) into the center of each of the biscuits.
• Step 8: Return to oven and bake for another 1 to 3 minutes (till each treat is slightly gold on the edge, but the peppermint isn’t melting into a pile of pink sludge).
• Step 9: Remove from oven and let cool.

I’ve also found it easiest to remove the individual biscuits from their muffin tin home by running a butter knife around the edge of each, then turning the pan over and gently tapping the tin on the counter till they all fall out.

Please give these treats a try and leave me a comment to let me know what you and your horse think of my Peppermint Biscuits!  (I’ve eaten one and they’re really not for me, but feel free to knock yourself out … these have also been stolen by my dogs and they didn’t die – so take that for what you will!)