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by Stephan Lamprecht
Merry Catmas: How to bake cat biscuits
18/12/2025
Translation: machine translated
Instead of vanilla crescents, I'm baking tuna cat biscuits this Christmas. They're much simpler, but smell like hell. I wonder if that will convince my cats Jasper and Joy?
«Finally, a biscuit to my taste», I think, as I stumble across an online recipe for cat biscuits. The short list of ingredients and the simple preparation are right up my street. Because baking is really not my speciality
But 140 grammes of salt- and oil-free tuna, 120 grammes of oat, potato or rice flour, an egg, a tablespoon of sunflower oil and two tablespoons of water to mix, roll and bake - I should be able to manage that. And when I look at the ingredients in other cat snacks in our shop, it even sounds really healthy.
Flour search and gag reflex
The first challenge begins in the supermarket: no oat, potato or rice flour to be found anywhere. I only find rice flour in the third shop - and can finally get started.
First I mix the tuna, egg and sunflower oil. My gag reflex kicks in several times: the tuna smells awful! And it doesn't help that crushed fish particles are splashing towards me. Jasper the cat, on the other hand, thinks he's been in an olfactory land of milk and honey ever since I opened the tin of fish. While I pour in the rice flour and water and knead the batter evenly, he meows in my ears. Joy is asleep in the next room and doesn't notice a thing.
The stench evaporates
Slowly but surely, things are coming together. I roll the dough into small balls and place them on the baking tray. I knead the last, large piece of dough into a cat's paw
Now it goes into the oven for 15 minutes at 180 degrees - under Jasper's scrutinising eye.
After a few minutes, when I carefully sniff the oven door, I'm amazed: the biscuits no longer stink. On the contrary. I would almost say they smell delicious. When they turn a light brown colour, I take them out of the oven and leave them covered on the balcony to cool. What I notice straight away: The biscuits are quite hard. There will be a lot to chew - not Joy's speciality with her few teeth.
The moment of truth
After a few minutes, the time has come: I bring in the cat biscuits and place them on two flat plates that Jasper and Joy are never allowed to eat from. Festive crockery, so to speak. Joy doesn't seem to be impressed by the crockery or the biscuits. She just gives them a sleepy look and disappears again. While Jasper grabs hers after his biscuit. Fortunately, the treats are only given in between. Otherwise, the glutton will eat himself a big festive belly.
My conclusion: cat biscuits are a matter of taste. Perhaps my baking skills are simply subterranean. Next Christmas, I'll replace the tuna with chicken or leave the balls in the oven for a little less time. Or I could just use turkey and egg, like here. Then Joy might also enjoy them more. With this in mind: Joy to the World!
*By the way: You can store the biscuits in an airtight container in the fridge for about a week.
Have you baked or cooked something for your cats? Tell us about it in a comment.
Darina Schweizer
Senior Editor
Darina.Schweizer@digitecgalaxus.chI love anything with four legs or roots - especially my shelter cats Jasper and Joy and my collection of succulents. My favourite things to do are stalking around with police dogs and cat coiffeurs on reportages or letting sensitive stories flourish in garden brockis and Japanese gardens.
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