Looking for some fun April Fool’s Day Pranks with food? Want to prank your kids, family, or significant other for April Fools? The best joke is with these dog shaped cookies, you can actually eat!
You’ll have so much fun making these tasty April Fool’s Dog Treat Cookies!
These cookies are actually ‘human treats” that look like a dog bone cookie! The perfect April Fool’s prank.
April Fools is the perfect day to share the joy by playing a practical joke and hoax.
This year, share the fun by including the dog and turn April Fool’s Day into an April Fool’s Day with these fun, safe and delicious food pranks to keep everyone in the family smiling.
Because I bake dog treats for my dogs all the time, it was the obvious thing to do, using my dog bone cookie cutter and make treats for my family. Because they know I make dog treats, the joke will be on them when they aren’t sure whether to eat the cookies.
Best thing about these dog bone cookies for humans is all the fancy decorations that dogs can’t eat! So fun!
While these April Fool’s Dog Treats are for us humans, there are many ways to include your pup with some of our homemade dog treat recipes like our Beet Cookies, Apple and Blueberry Cookies.
Either way, you can’t go wrong with giving your family or friends these fun treats!
How to Make April Fool's Dog Treats for your Family
The Best April Fools Dog Treat Cookies
- Makes: 24 cookies
- Prep Time: 25 minutes + chill time 1 hour
- Bake Time: 8-10 minutes
Ingredients:
- 1 ½ cup flour
- ¾ cup confectioners' sugar
- ½ cup butter
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
Icing Ingredients:
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 2 teaspoon light corn syrup
- 4 teaspoon milk
- ¼ teaspoon almond extract
- any shade of blue food color
- Non-pariels or other candy decorations. I went with tiny white and green non-pariels, brown candy non-pariels, and larger turquoise non-pariels.
Supplies Needed:
- Bowl
- Couple of Small Bowls for frosting colors
- Food Coloring
- Toothpick
- Plastic Wrap
- Stand or hand mixer
- Dog bone cookie cutter
- Frosting piping tool or piping bag
- Non-Pariels
Directions:
Cream together confectioner's sugar, butter, vanilla, almond, and egg.
Blend in flour, cream of tartar, and baking soda until thoroughly combined.
Wrap dough in plastic wrap and place in refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
Roll dough on floured board to ⅛” thick.
Cutout several cookies with your dog bone cookie cutter. Re-roll dough scraps and cut again.
Bake at 375° for 8-10 minutes or just golden. Allow to cool completely.
To prepare the icing
Combine confectioners' sugar, milk, corn syrup, and extract until smooth and creamy.
Pro Tip: to create a nice piped edge on the cookie, separate 2 heaping tablespoon of icing into a small bowl, and add 1 tablespoon of confectioner's sugar. This will create a thicker icing.
Scoop this icing into a piping bag with a small hole cut in the bottom.
Pipe your edge around each dog's bone cookie. This will prevent the colored icing from pooling and dripping over the edge.
With the remaining icing, add food coloring to desired tint. Pro Tip: to create different color icings for your cooking, separate into small bowls before adding food color.
Spoon a small amount of food coloring onto cookie and carefully spread to border edge. Pro Tip: use a toothpick to work the icing toward the edge.
Work quickly, the icing dries and hardens fast. Sprinkle non-pariels on as soon as possible so they will stick.
Use the piping icing for the edge to write words. Store in an airtight container after icing hardens.
Printable April Fool's Dog Treats Recipe
📖 Recipe
The Best April Fool's Dog Treat Cookies
The Best April Fool's Day Cookies for humans that look like Dog Bones.
Ingredients
Cookie Ingredients
- 1 ½ cup flour
- ¾ cup confectioner's sugar
- ½ cup butter
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon almond extract
- 1 egg
Icing Ingredients
- 1 cup confectioner's sugar
- 4 teaspoon milk
- 2 teaspoon light corn syrup
- ¼ teaspoon almond extract
- Blue Food Coloring
- Non-pariels or any other candy decorations
Instructions
- Cream together confectioner's sugar, butter, egg, vanilla and almond extract.
- Blend in flour, cream of tartar, and baking soda until throughly combined.
- Wrap dough in plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for at least an hour.
- Roll out your dough on a flour surface to approximately ⅛" thickness.
- Cutout several cookies with your dog bone cookie cutter. Re-roll the dough scrapes and cut again to make more cookies.
- Bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.
- Let the cookies cool completely.
To Prepare the Icing
1. Combine the confectioner's sugar, milk, corn syrup and extract until smooth and creamy.
Pro Tip: to create a nice piped edge on the cookie, separate 2 heaping tablespoon of icing into a small bowl and add 1 tablespoon of confectioner’s sugar.
This will create a thicker icing. Scoop this icing into a piping bag with a small hole cut in the bottom.
Pipe your edge around each dog bone cookie. This will prevent the colored icing from pooling and dripping over the edge.
With the remaining icing, add food coloring to desired tint.
Pro Tip: to create different color icings for your cooking, separate into small bowls before adding food color.
Spoon a small amount of food coloring onto cookie and carefully spread to border edge.
Pro Tip: use a toothpick to work the icing toward the edge.
Work quickly, the icing dries and hardens fast. Sprinkle non-pariels on asap so they will stick.
Use the piping icing for the edge.
Store in an air-tight container.
Sue says
This recipe sounds delicious! And what a fun April Fool's day joke!
Bobbie says
What a fun idea! Can’t wait to fool my friends!!
Miranda Balogh says
This is such a fun and cute idea! I'm sure it tastes delicious. Thank you for sharing!
Jennifer says
This is so funny! I’m making a huge platter & eat them in front of my boyfriend and see what he says ?
Ruby Doodle Dog says
HAHA...I'd love to see that one...Let me know how it goes...