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Treats:  Baking Required
Great horse treats but you will need an oven.  Adult help will be needed.
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Grain Balls

Ingredients:
1 cup Sugar
1/3 (one third) cup Light Karo Syrup
1 cup Water
1/4 (one fourth) teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Vanilla
3 quarts Sweet Feed

Instructions:
Cook first three ingredients to medium-crack stage (280 degrees F by thermometer).  Add salt and vanilla.  Stir into sweet feed.  Grease hands and shape mixture into balls.  Place on wax paper to set.  Wrap in colored cellophane as gifts.
Marshmallow Treats

Ingredients:
2 tablespoon Margarine
20 Marshmallows
2 cups Sweet Feed
1 cup Oats (you may substitute all Sweet Feed)
1/2 cup Mellow Creme treats(i.e. candy corm, pumpkins, etc.)
1/2 cup Bran

Instructions:
Lightly grease 8X8 pan with margarine and dust with bran.  Melt margarine in a sauce pan over medium heat.  Gradually add marshmallows, constantly stirring until melted. Remove from heat and add sweet feed, oats and candy.  Stir until well coated.  Pour mixture into the greased pan and sprinkle remaining bran on top and gently press down.  Allow to cool and cut into squares.  From Recipe Round-Up
Candied Apple Rings

Ingredients:
7 Apples
1 cup Brown Sugar
1 cup Molasses
2 cups Wheat Germ

Instructions:
Heat molasses and brown sugar till brown sugar melts.  Remove stems and paper stickers from apples, leaving the core and peeling untouched.  Slice each apple into 6-7 rings.  Dip each ring into the molasses and sugar mixture, letting excess mixture drip off before heavily coating each ring in the wheat germ. Place rings on dehydrator trays so that they do not touch.  Dehydrate 10-14 hours.  If you do not have a dehydrator you can put them in the over on a low temperature.
Golden Apple Slices
(warning these are sticky and messy to make but easy to clean up)

Ingredients:
1/4 cup Molasses
1/4 cup Oats (any kind works)
1 Apple, sliced into thin pieces

Instructions:
Dip apple slices in molasses and then into the oats.  Bake until golden brown.  Refrigerate.  You can substitute molasses for a half and half mixture of honey and maple syrup if your horse prefers.
Oat Crisps

Oven Degrees: 350 F
Cooking Time: 8-10 minutes

Ingredients:
1 cup Butter or Margarine
2 cups Packed Brown Sugar
1 cup Molasses
3 Eggs
2 cups All Purpose Flour
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 teasppon Baking Soda
2 cups horse oats or rolled oats
4 Apples, finely chopped
2 Large Carrots, chopped

Instructions:
Mix all ingredients in a large bowl and put on cookie sheet with a tablespoon.  Bake at 350 F for 8-10 min. 
Note: I didn't add the apples and carrots and I baked them in muffin tins.  A little too runny to put on a cookie sheet.  It does ride some so don't fill the tins.  Less batter in the muffin tins make nice wafer type cookies.  Just remember to adjust the baking time so you do not burn them.
Honey Molasses Cookies

Oven Degrees: 350 F
Cooking Time: 10-15 minutes

Ingredients:

1 cup Molasses
1/4 cup Honey
1/2 Maple Syrup
1 cup Oats (any kind works)
1/2 cup Shredded Apple

Instructions:
Stir molasses, honey, maple syrup and oats together.  Roll into bite size cookis and bake for 10-15 minutes.  Let cool then drizzle some honey on top and cover with shredded apple.
Note:  I like this one but I don't add the apples because then they don't last as long.  To keep them longer then need to be froze.  You can put them in Ziploc bags.  Also if you are putting them in the freezer then don't add the honey on top until you take them out and rehear them in the oven or micreowave.
Jasmine's Oatmeal Treats

Oven Degrees: 350 F
Cooking Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:
1 cup Oatmeal
1 cup Bran Cereal (any kind)
1 cup Shredded Carrots
1 teaspoon Salt
2 tablespoon Brown Sugar
2 tablespoon Vegetable Oil
1/4 cup Water
1/4 cup Molasses

Instructions:
Mix ingredients together in a bowl.  Lightly oil a cookie sheet and your hands so that the dough doesn't stick to them.  Roll into 1 inch balls and place on sheet.  Bake at 350F for 15 minutes or until golden brown.  These keep their shape and do not spread out on the pan, so they can be placed close together.
Note: I left the carrots out of this one too.  Very sticky dough. I like how it is a simple recipe.  Stayed soft too.
Molasses Muffins

Oven Degrees: 350 F
Cooking Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients:
7 cups Sweet Feed
2 Jars(12 oz each) of Dark Molasses
1/2 cup of Water
2-1/2 cups Flour

Instructions:
1. Mix the first 3 ingredients, THEN add the flour.  2.  Coat Muffin tins with Vegetable oil.  3. Press the dough down into the tins.  4. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes, or until dark brown.  This recipe should make about 96 cookie treats for you horse.  you can add grated carrots for color and flavor, also apples. 
Note:  This is the one that I make very year for my horses.  I make a doulbe batch and get close to 200 treats if I only fill the tins half full. They are easy to make but you will need to put them into air tigh containers to store them.  I don't add the apples or carrots so that they last longer.
Pony Bites

Oven Degrees: 350 F
Cooking Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:
1 cup Uncooked Oatmeal
1 cup Flour
1 cup Shredded Carrots
1 teaspoon Salt
1 tablespoon Sugar
2 tablespoon Corn Oil
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup Molasses

Instructions:
Mix ingredients in a bowl in the order lised.  Make small balls and place on cookie sheet sprayed with Pam.  Bake 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until golden brown.  horses love 'em!
Note Again I left out the carrots.  Simple recipe but the dough is sticky.  They didn't turn a golden brown because they are so dark from the molasses.  This made 82 treats that are about 1 inch.  I also flattened them out instead of leaving them in balls.
Flax Seed Cookies

Oven Degrees: 300F
Cooking Time: 1 hour 45 minutes

Ingredients:
1 cup Sweet Feed
2 cups Bran
1 cup Flax Seed
4 large Carrots, shredded
1 cup Molasses
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1 cup Applesauce

Instructions:
Mix molasses, brown sugar, carrots and applesauce in one bowl.  In another bowl mix the dry ingrecients.  Slowly combine the molasses mixture with the dry ingredients.  Add only enough molasses mixture to form a thick dough, add more bran if necessary.  Line cookie sheet with aluminum foil.  Using a tablespoon, drop batter onto cookie sheet and flatten slightly to form portions about the size of a silver dollar.  Bake at 300 degrees for about 1 hour.  Flip and bake for an additional 45 minutes until they are dried out.  Keep checking to make sure they don't burn.
Apple Drop Cookies

Oven Degrees: 350F
Cooking Time: 10-12 minutes

Ingredients:
1 cup Margarine
1 cup All Purpose Flour
1 cup Brown Sugar
1 cup Bran
1 cup diced Carrots
1 cup diced Apples
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
2 cups Quick Cooking Rolled Oats
2 Eggs

Instructions:
Cream margarine and sugar until light and fluffy.  Beat in eggs.  Combine flour, bran and baking soda.  Blend into creamed mixture.  Stir in oats, carrots, and apples.  Drop by spoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets and bake at 350F for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned.  Remove and cool.  Makes about 4 dozen.
Equus Muffins

Oven Degrees: 400 F
Cooking Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:
1-1/2 cups Bran
1 cup Whole Wheat Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
3/4 cup Skimmed Milk
1/2 cup Molasses
2 tablespoons Corn Oil
1 Egg, beaten

Instructions:
Stir together bran, flour, soda, and baking powder in a bowl.  Mix together milk, molasses, oil and egg in another bowl.  Mix wet ingredients into dry ingrefients.  Bake in greased or paper lined muffin tins at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.
Show Day Treats

Oven Degrees: 350 F
Cooking Rime: 10-25 minutes

Ingredients:
4 quarts Sweet Feed
2 cups Bran or Bran Cereal
2 cups Oats or Quaker Oats(optional)
1 can frozen Apple Juice concentrate
5-6 Carrots, chopped
3 Apples, chopped(optional)
1 jar Molasses
1 jar Karo Corn Syrup
5 Eggs
2-3 cups Corn Oil
2 tablespoons Baking Powder
Flour
Water

Instructions:
In a huge bowl combine all of the ingredients but flour and water.  Add flour and water, alternating until you have a cake like batter that is very chunky.  Spray muffin tins with an oil and drop by spoonfuls.  They will rise a little, so don't overfill.  Bake at 350 degrees for 10-15 mintues.  Cool on a paper towel.  or you can pour batter into a large baking pan(well greased) to make cookie bars.  Bake until center is dry and firm(probably 30-60 mintues, depending on your pan and the amount of batter).  Let cool overnight or for several hours.  Cut into suqares.  This makes a huge amouth(2 grocery bags full), so you may want to cut the recipe down by a factor of 2 or 4.  Because this makes so many they are goof to take to fun days, shows, group meetings and trail rides or even to give as gifts around the holidays.
Oat Cookies

Oven Degrees: 350 F

Ingredients:

1 cup Oatmeal
1 cup Bran
1 cup Water
1 tablespoon Salt
2 tablespoon Brown Sugar
1/2 cup Molasses

Instructions:
Mix ingredients together, spoon on to a greased cookie sheet.  Cook until hard on the outside.  Leave out to dry and cool.  Refrigerate any cookies that are not eaten.
Two Step Cookies

Oven Degrees: 300 F
Cooking Time: 40 minutes

Basic Mix
1-2/3 cups Dry Milk
10 cups Flour
1/3 cup Baking Powder
2-1/2 cups Vegetable or Corn Oil

Make basic mix and store in refrigerator until ready to use

Cookies
3 cups basic mix
1-1/2 cups Crimped or Rolled Oats
3/4 cup Water

Drop onto greased cookie sheet by medium teaspponful.  Flatten with fork dipped in water.  Make as flat as possible so they come out very crunchy.  Bake at 300 degrees for 20 minutes.  Take out and turn the cookies over and bake for an additional 10-20 minutes or until very dry and crunchy.
Note:  These are pretty easy.  I cut the Basic Mix in half and and I got about two batchs of cookies from it.  They are sticky and a little hard to shape but they hold their shape.  Spraying the fork or spoon with Pan is better then dipping it in water.  You can also make them in muttin tins by pressing dough into the tines.  Just don't make them to thick.  Molasses can be added to thise recipe to make Two Step Molasses Cookies.
Birthday Cake II

Oven Degrees: 350F
Cooking Time: 60 minutes

Ingredients:
1/2 cup Oats
1/2 cup Horse Grain
1/2 cup Bran
1 cup Lucern Chaff
1 cup Oaten chaff
3 cups Molasses

Instructions:
Mix all ingredients together in a bowl; mix well, your horses are the best to mix this with.  Put into a cake tin and flatten down.  Put into preheated oven for 1 hour at 180C or 350F.  take out of the oven and let the cake cool carefully as the molasses really sticks.  When cool, add a little more molasses over the top and serve.
Applesauce

Oven Degrees: 350F
Cooking Time: 25 minutes

Ingredients:
4-5 cups dry Oatmeal
203 cups Applesauce
2 Eggs
1/2 stick of Butter
1 to 1-1/2 cups Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
Chopped Apples and Carrots(optional)

Instructions:

Blend all ingredients together until mixture forms.  Stir in apples and carrots(optional.  Bake at 350 degrees for about 25 minutes, let cool.
Bread Cookies

Oven Degrees: 350F
Cooking Time: 60 minutes

Ingredients:
1 large bowl Molasses
Stale Bread
Cookie Cutters
Sugar

Instructions:
Pour molasses in a bowl, cut pieces of bread with a cookie cutter, soak bread in molasses for 10 seconds.  Preheat oven to 350.  Place bread on greased cookie sheet and sprinkly on sugar.  Bake for 1 hour.
Raisin Horse Muffins

Oven Degrees: 400 F
Cooking Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients:

3/4 cup Flour
3 teaspoon Baking powder
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1 cup Bran
1/2 cup Raisins
1 Egg
1/2 cup Milk
1/3 cup Molasses
1/2 cup Oil

Instructions:
Sift together first four ingredients into a bowl.  Stir in raisins.  Measure mild and beat in egg.  Add oil and molasses to egg/milk.  Mix liquid into dry ingredients stirring until just mixed.  Fill paper lined or greased cupcake or muffin tins 2/3 full and bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes.  Makes 12.
Horse Delights

Oven Degrees: 350F
Cooking Time: 60 minutes

Ingredients:
2 cups Senior Horse Pellets
3/4 cup Water
2 cups Rolled Oats
1-2 cups Bran
1 cup Molasses
2 cups shredded Carrots
1/4 cup Brown Sugar

Instructions:
Preheat Over to 350.  Lightly grease cookie sheet.  Mix pellets and water together to make a mash.  Mix in rest of ingredients.  Make small balls put on cookie sheet.  Bake 1 hour, turn oven off and let them sit in oven for another hour.  These cookie will be really hard, but the horse love them.
Horse Brownies

Oven Degrees: 350 F
Cooking Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients:
1 cup Carrot, grated
1 Apple, grated
2 tablespoons Corn Oil
1/4 cup Molasses
1 teaspoon Salt
1 cup Rolled Oats
1 cup Flour

Instructions:
Preheat over to 350.  Lightly grease cookie sheet.  In a large bowl, mix carrot, apple, corn oil and molasses together.  Then fold in salt, oats and flour until well mixed.  Spread dough out in one big piece on the cookie sheet.  Score dough with a knife to make it easier to break apart after baking. (or try rolling dough out and cutting shapes with cookie cutters)  Cook for 20 minutes or until brown.  Let cool, break apart and serve.
Al's Alfalfa Cookies

Oven Degrees:
325F
Cooking Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients:
4 cups Horse Oats
1 cup Bran
1 cup Flour
1/2 cup Packed Brown Sugar
1 cup Molasses
1 stick Butter
1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
1/2 teaspoon Baking Sode
2 Carrots, grated
3 large Alfalfa cubes, crushed

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 325 and grease a cookie sheet.  Mix 2 cups oats and all dry ingredients, including carrots and alfalfa.  Crush cubes by putting them in a plastic bag and pounding them with a meat tenderizer.  They don't have to be powder, small chucks is fine.  Mix in all liquid ingredients.  Stir in the rest of the oats. 9This was just so they didn't spill all over the place) Put small balls onto the baking sheet and flatten.  Cook for 20 minutes, makes about 6 batches.  From the Equine Chef(under the name of Horse Cookies)
Microwave Thumbprint Cookies

Cooking Time: 6 minutes

Ingredients:
2 cups Flour
5 cups Oatmeal
1/2 cup Corn Oil
1 clove Garlic
1 cup diced Carrots

Instructions:
Combine ingredients in bowl.  Form into small balls which you purss down with your thumb or a spoon then place in microwaveable pan or sheet.  Microwave on high for 6 minutes per batch.
Note I mixed it just like it said but it was to dry to hold any type of shape.  So I added more oild and a little water.  I made the dough and split it in half.  In one I added the carrots, in the other i left the carrots out and added molasses.  Both worked but I had to add enough oil and water to make it sticky.  The cook time changed because of this.  It took a little longer to cook.  Watch closely because they will burn quickly.  I like this one even though it gave me some problems.
Carrot Drop Cookies

Oven Degrees: 350F
Cooking Time: 60 minutes

Ingredients:

1 cup Grain or Pellets
1 cup Oats
1 cup shredded Carrots
3/4 cup Raisin Bran Cereal
1/2 cup Molasses
1/8 cup Brown Sugar

Instructions:
Mix all ingredients in a large bowl.  Either drop onto greased cookie sheets with a spoon or form them into balls and place them on greased sheet.  Bake for about an hour at 350 and then turn off oven and lean them in until oven is cool. 
Bread Cookies II

Oven Dregrees: 350F
Cooking Time: 60 minutes

Ingredients:

Stale Bread
Sugar(white or brown)
Molasses

Instructions:
Cut stale breal with cookie cutters.  Soak bread in molasses for 5 minutes and place on greased cookie sheet.  Sprinkle with sugar.  Bake for 1 hour at 350.
Treat Discs

Oven Degrees: 350F

Ingredients
1 cup Oats
1 cup Sweet Feed
1 cup Molasses
1 cup Flour

Instructions:
You can use 2 cups grain in place of oats and sweet feed.  In large bowl, mis oats, sweet feed and flour.  then add the molasses a little bit at a time and mix well.  1 cup might be to much so stap adding molasses once the grain and flour are totally covered.  Grease muffin tins or line them with tin foil.  Scoop enough of the mixture into the tins to fill them about 1/3 of the way, packing the mixture down.  Bake at 350 until lightly browned.
Sugar Cookies

Oven Degrees: 350F
Cooking Time: 18 minutes

Ingredients:
1-1/2 cups Oatmeal
3 slices Bread(white is best0
2 Apples
3 Carrots
3 tablespoons Granulated Sugar
3/4 cup Powdered Sugar
1/4 cup Water
1/4 cup Vegetable Oil

Instructions:
Pell and shred Apples and cattors and then place in a bowl.  Mix in granulated sugar and mix well.  Stir in oatmeal.  Tear bread into smal pieces and stir into mixutre.  Stir in powdered sugar.  then add water and oil and mix well.  Drop on greased cookie sheets with a spoon.  Bake at 350 for 18 minutes.
Three Ingredient Treats

Oven Degrees: 350F
Cooking Time: 10-12 minutes

Ingredients:
1 packet Quaker Oatmeal(can be flavored)
2 Carrots
1 cup Applesauce
Water

Instructions:
In bowl mix oatmeal and just enough water to make it moist.  Shred carrots and apples and mix with oatmeal.  Drop onto a greased cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes at 350.
Honey Balls

Oven Dgrees: 325F

Ingredients:
1 cup Oatmeal(can be flavored)
1/2 cup Cheerios
Honey

Instructions:
In a bowl mix oatmeal and cheerio.  Then add a little honey and mix well.  Add more honey if needed, it needs to be able to be formed into balls and hold it's shape.  Then place on greased cookie sheet and bake at 325 until lightly brown.
Whinny Bars

Oven Degrees: 375F
Cooking Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients:
2 cups Dry Oatmeal
3/4 cup Grain
3 cups Bran
1 cup Molasses

Instructions:
Mix oats, grain and bran together in a bucket.  Drizzle in molasses while mixing with your hands - you're looking for a consistency a little thinner than play-doh.  Place dollos(about half a handful) on a cookie sheet and bake at 375 for ten minutes.  These have a tendency to burn.  They never get completely hard, but they store nicely.  You can spread the mixture in a pan and cook it like bars, but only in a greased pan.  From Infynitis's Utopia
Midnightboss Jasmine is a 2000 foundation bred AQHA mare.  She is a favorite of all who met her.  Her dam is Midnigh Wisp and Irish Wolf Destiny was her half sister.  Jasmine was named Midnightboss in memory of Dr Smooth Bossman who died 5 months before she was born.
Misty's Oat Cake

Oven Degrees: 350F
Cooking Time: 35-40 minutes

Ingredients:
Sift Together:
2 1/4 cup Flour
1 1/2 cup Sugar
3 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Salt

Mix In:
1 cup Uncooked Oats
1/2 cup Shortening

Beat In:
2 Egg Yolks(save the egg whites)
1 cup Milk

Instructions:
After everything is well mixed, fold in 2 beaten Egg Whites.  Put in two greased and floured 9 inch pans.  Bake are 350 for 35-40 mins.  Test with toothpick.  When cake is cool, spread top with molasses and finely chopped walnuts.