Ever thought about baking some horse treats? This summer, I am spending all of my time riding my favorite horse in Remsenburg, LI.

Molly has been working so hard for me.  It’s been really hot (95 degrees on Monday) and we’ve been jumping 1’9 and 2 foot.  so I thought “How about I make some homemade horse treats for her?”  On Saturday I made two different treats. I almost did everything but I got a second degree burn on my hand so my mom wouldn’t let me go near the oven. Just in case you want to make these cookies at home, here are the recipes…

Ingredients

Peppermint Treats:

10 Crushed Peppermints

2 Cups of Flour

2 Apples

I Cup of Oats

1/4 Cup of Molasses

Water

Directions

1. Mix flour and oats together

2. Add molasses

3. Add water (VERY) slowly until mixture is doughy

4. Add peppermint

5. Add apples

6. Cook at 350 degrees until golden brown

Ingredients

Carrot Horse Treat

2 Cups grated carrots (about 4 large carrots)

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

1/4 cup molasses

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup oats

1 cup flour

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl mix together the carrots, oil, and molasses until combined. Add the salt, oats and flour and stir until it’s combined.  It will be a sticky dough like consistency.  Form into small one inch size balls with your hand.  Place them on a parchment or sill, pat-line baking sheet and bake for about 20-25 minutes, or until they are golden brown.

Here are the two different types of cookies right out of the oven.

This is my peppermint cookie.

This is my carrot cookie.

My trip started in the N757XJ, with spinny chairs, pillows, and blankets galore. It took 3 long hours of Doctor Who, Teen Titans Go, and well, dreaming of my life in the world of Fairy Tail. We finally made it and unloaded our heavy bags to our friend’s Jeep Wrangler. Friends of my family live in Texas and they invited us to spend 4th of July weekend with them. The weekend was packed with a lot of bug related screaming, scrumptious food, beautiful views, and tons and tons of walking in flip flops. Here is my highlight of the trip…

Epic view from the swimming pool!!! Number 1.

Epic view from the swimming pool!!! Number 2.

Quinn, Eddie (the chef), Dagny (my mom and dad’s friends’ 6 year old daughter), Zita (their babysitter), and I had just finished our job making and serving homemade pizzas to our families. We were on our way back in their silver Jeep Wrangler when the group decided to be risky and go on the perilous rough off-road. There was no problems until we came upon the extremely steep hill. We got stuck midway up the hill!

“Ok, everyone out,” Eddie said puzzled by this conundrum. Zita, Dagny, Quinn, and I, all bustled out of the vehicle.

“It looks like we are going to have to hike up the rest of the way,” Zita problem solved with a can of bug spray in hand. So we started walking up the hill…

30 minutes later we finally made it to the ranch, dust covered and exhausted. There the parents were puzzled by our absence. All of us told different versions of our journey to different people.  On this July 4th we created our own urban legend to be retold next year.