Dog Treat Coating: How to work with Yogurt and Carob Coating
Yogurt Dog Treat Coating
Yogurt chips are not easy to find! The only place I've been able to find them is online at Barry Farm.
I haven't been able to find any place that sells yogurt chips made with no sugar or partially hydrogenated oils. I'm still looking. If you know where I can get these, please let me know!
For coloring, I chose an all natural brand of food coloring that I bought at Whole Foods. They're expensive, but if you want to keep your treats all natural, you'll feel good about using them.
If you have trouble melting your chips, consider getting some paramount crystals (see below) to liquefy things a bit. I had no problems melting the Barry Farm yogurt chips.
Note: You may want to avoid going overboard with the yogurt coating unless you're using coating that has no (or not much) sugar.
Carob Dog Treat Coating
One thing I learned is that you can't just get some carob chips and melt them in the double boiler. Well, you can, but for me it turned out a glumpy mess.
I learned about something called paramount crystals, again from Barry Farms.
Paramount Crystals
You add these to your melting carob chips (or yogurt chips) and the carob gets velvety! It's like magic. You have to watch how much you add though, because you can make the mixture too runny.
Carob chips melting with paramount crystals mixed in
The final product should be easy to work with. Just soft enough to pour, but not so runny that it won't keep its shape.
Some of these treats (below) I dipped directly into the melted mixture and others I used a squeeze bottle to create more detail.
