Barkin' Bars for Bonzo's Breakfast

In an unscientific taste test, 4 out of 5 dogs preferred homemade Barkin' Bars over store-bought bars!

• Ready In: 1 hr 40 mins
• Serves: 24
• Yields: 2 cookie trays full of canine goodies

Ingredients

• 6  cups oatmeal
• 2  cups whole wheat flour
• 4  large eggs
• 2  ounces  crumbled  Grape-nuts cereal or 2  ounces  Cheerios toasted oat cereal
• 4  slices bacon, fried to a crisp and crumbled
• 3  ounces bacon grease (add some oil if needed)
• 1⁄3 cup honey
• 2  ounces molasses
• 1  cup milk
•  peanut butter
• 1 (15 ounce) can black beans, rinsed, drained and mashed (optional)
• 2 -3  mashed bananas (optional)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 325°F.
2. Fetch 2 cookie sheets and grease them.
3. Dump everything into a HUMONGOUS bowl and mix thoroughly.
4. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough mixture into approximately ½-inch thick oblong sheets.
5. Sit!
6. Stay!
7. Place dough onto greased cookie sheets and, using a pizza cutter or knife, score into whatever size cookies you like.
8. Bake at 325° for 1 hour.
9. After an hour, turn oven off, crack oven door open, and allow cookies to cool in oven.
10. Break at the scored lines.
11. Say “Woof”!. These freeze really well.