Your horses will love these simple, yummy peppermint horse treats! This recipe is easy to make at home, and will have your horses begging for more. The ingredients are pretty simple, and you’ll probably have most of them in your kitchen already.
Peppermint Horse Treats Ingredients:
- 3/4 of a cup of Molasses
- 1 cup Brown Sugar
- 3 cups Flour (white or whole wheat)
- 1 and 1/2 cups of water
- 3 cups raw oats (uncooked oatmeal oats)
- A bag of peppermints (use whatever brand you want)
How to Make the Peppermint Treats:
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
Use an electric if possible (you can mix by hand, but it’s more difficult to mix the ingredients). Mix everything together in the mixing bowl — all ingredients together — and don’t be afraid to add a little bit more molasses or a small amount more water to make the batter a bit easier to work with.
Our horses don’t like too much molasses in their muffins, but you can feed free to add more if you want. The more molasses you add, the darker the batter will get.
Pour the batter into a small muffin tin, filling up as many of the muffin cups as you can (but don’t fill too high — the mix will rise a bit as it cooks). Bake for about 12 to 17 minutes, but keep an eye on it; depending on your elevation and oven, they could take longer or shorter to cook.
This is important: don’t put the peppermints on the muffins until after you’ve taken them out of the oven to cool! Peppermints actually melt into a pool of gunk in the oven if you put them on before baking. Once you’ve taken the muffins out, you can press the peppermints into the center of each one. As they cool, they will make the peppermints stick to them.
Don’t be afraid to experiment with how you put the peppermints on the horse treats! You can press a whole peppermint into the muffins, or break them up and sprinkle peppermint bits onto them. It’s your call.
And that’s it . . . if your horses are anything like ours, then they will love these yummy peppermint treats! Just be sure not to feed them too many at one time. :)