Okay... so I tried to make cookies for my chinchillas. Just an experiment. However, I lacked a binding agent and they completely fell apart. I also think that the lowest setting on my oven was too low. I baked them for over two hours and they were still moist.
All I added to them was some hay from the bottom of the bag from a few hay types, some hay cube dust, crushed hay cubes, a bit of crushed Oxbow pellets and water. I had hoped they would hold together like that, but obviously not. I was trying to make cookies that would be as safe for my girls as hay cubes or their current supplement since they are not even 4 months yet. I'd planned to give them very sparingly if they turned out. Mainly I had a surplus of unuseable hay and wanted to experiment.
Soooooo.. my quandry is people on here recommended blackstrap molasses. We have two brands of molasses here but neither of them specify blackstrap. However, the sugar count is the same as or lower than the nutrition information I found on blackstrap brands online. How much sugar is okay? I'd only planned to use enough to help hold everything together.
Any ideas? Tips? I've hunted for recipes but several have ingredients that I view as not safe for my girls. Like supplements, fruit, or oats. I don't think oats would hurt my girls as they came with some in the supplement I gave them when I first got them. However, I didn't think oats would be anymore helpful in binding things together than hay.
All I added to them was some hay from the bottom of the bag from a few hay types, some hay cube dust, crushed hay cubes, a bit of crushed Oxbow pellets and water. I had hoped they would hold together like that, but obviously not. I was trying to make cookies that would be as safe for my girls as hay cubes or their current supplement since they are not even 4 months yet. I'd planned to give them very sparingly if they turned out. Mainly I had a surplus of unuseable hay and wanted to experiment.
Soooooo.. my quandry is people on here recommended blackstrap molasses. We have two brands of molasses here but neither of them specify blackstrap. However, the sugar count is the same as or lower than the nutrition information I found on blackstrap brands online. How much sugar is okay? I'd only planned to use enough to help hold everything together.
Any ideas? Tips? I've hunted for recipes but several have ingredients that I view as not safe for my girls. Like supplements, fruit, or oats. I don't think oats would hurt my girls as they came with some in the supplement I gave them when I first got them. However, I didn't think oats would be anymore helpful in binding things together than hay.