King Arthur Dog Biscuit Mix vs Cooper's Treats Baked Biscuit Mix

TL;DR: King Arthur Baking sells a Dog Biscuit Mix for $8.95, in Pumpkin & Apples or Carrots & Beef Broth, portioned into their own Dog Bone Pan for about 42 biscuits a box. Our Baked Biscuit Mix runs $12.49 in Beef & Cheddar or Turkey & Cinnamon, just add water, roll, cut, and bake, no dedicated pan required. King Arthur wins on starting price and a trusted baking-brand name already in a lot of kitchens. We lean into protein-named flavors and a starter kit that bundles the mix with cookie cutters. Here's the honest side-by-side.

King Arthur Baking has been a name in home baking for over two centuries, so a dog biscuit mix from them gets attention the second it shows up in a search. We make dog treat mixes for a living, so people ask us how ours stacks up. Here's the straight answer: price, ingredients, what's actually in the box, and how each one bakes.

What's on the King Arthur Label

King Arthur sells two Dog Biscuit Mix flavors, Pumpkin & Apples and Carrots & Beef Broth, both $8.95. The product page describes the Pumpkin & Apples version as "a blend of ancient grains, fiber-rich pumpkin, and farm-fresh apples for healthy digestion." That's King Arthur's own language, not ours.

King Arthur doesn't publish a full ingredient panel on the product page itself. A handful of retailer listings describe the mix as whole wheat flour, sorghum flour, oats, flaxseed, pumpkin, apples, and parsley, but we haven't been able to confirm that list against the actual box, so treat it as a general picture rather than a verbatim label copy. King Arthur's page doesn't break out ingredients for the Carrots & Beef Broth flavor at all.

What is confirmed: a box works out to about 42 biscuits when you portion the mix into King Arthur's own Dog Bone Pan, roughly a tablespoon per well. One retailer, Instacart, lists the box at 12 ounces, which works out to about $0.75 an ounce, or about $0.21 a biscuit at that yield. King Arthur also sells a Dog Bone Mix and Pan Set for $30.53 to $33.90, and standalone pans and cutters separately.

What's in Our Baked Biscuit Mix

We sell two Baked Biscuit Mix flavors, Beef & Cheddar and Turkey & Cinnamon, both $12.49. Both are all-natural, made in the USA, with no preservatives or artificial ingredients. You add water, bring the mix into a dough, roll it out, cut it into shapes (a set of bone-shaped cookie cutters comes with the starter kit below), and bake.

We don't publish an exact biscuit count or net weight for this line the way King Arthur does with its pan-and-tablespoon method, since yield depends on how thick you roll the dough and what size cutter you use. That means we can't hand you a clean price-per-biscuit number here, and we'd rather say that plainly than make one up.

Price and Yield, Side by Side

Straight price for the mix alone, King Arthur is cheaper to start. Once you factor in a starter bundle, the two land close together, $29.99 for ours against $30.53 and up for theirs, and both give you the tools plus a first batch of mix.

Where the Two Mixes Actually Agree

Both are genuinely "just add water" mixes built for a home kitchen, not a long ingredient panel you need help parsing. King Arthur leans on its baking pedigree and a pan-and-tablespoon method that takes the guesswork out of portioning. We lean on a rolling-and-cutting method that's closer to a classic biscuit process, plus flavors named after the protein in them instead of the produce. Neither approach is more "natural" than the other, they're just different ways to get a home-baked biscuit out of a mix.

Where They Differ

• Flavor direction. King Arthur's two flavors lean on pumpkin, apple, carrot, and beef broth. Ours are named for the protein, beef and cheddar, or turkey and cinnamon.
• Tooling. King Arthur's method uses their own Dog Bone Pan for a consistent, no-rolling yield. Ours uses cookie cutters on rolled dough, more hands-on, but you can size the biscuits however you want.
• Price. King Arthur starts cheaper per box, the gap narrows once you compare bundles.
• Ingredient transparency. King Arthur's own page doesn't publish a full ingredient panel. Ours states all-natural, no preservatives or artificial ingredients, plainly on the product page.

Buy King Arthur If...

• You want the lower starting price on a single box.
• You already trust King Arthur's name from your own baking and want the same brand in the dog treat aisle.
• You'd rather scoop a tablespoon into a dedicated pan than roll and cut dough.
• You want a produce-forward flavor, pumpkin and apple, or carrot and beef broth.

Choose Cooper's Baked Biscuit Mix If...

• You want a protein-named flavor, beef and cheddar or turkey and cinnamon.
• You'd rather roll and cut your own shapes than buy a dedicated bone-shaped pan.
• You want the mix, cutters, and a recipe card in one starter kit.
• You already make our frozen Pupsicle Mix and want a baked option from the same brand.

How Baking with a Mix Actually Goes

My dog Maple has strong opinions about the oven timer. She parks herself in the kitchen the second anything smells like baking, and she is, for the record, a terrible judge of whether a biscuit turned out well, she'd eat cardboard if it came out of a warm pan. What she is good for is the "did this actually finish baking" check, if she leaves a piece half-chewed and walks off, something's off with the batch. So far the Baked Biscuit Mix has passed every time.

The actual steps: stir the mix with water until it comes together as a dough, roll it out on a floured counter, cut shapes with a cookie cutter, and bake until firm and lightly golden. Store finished biscuits in an airtight container, they'll keep like any homemade baked good, so plan to use them within a couple of weeks or freeze extras.

The Cooper's Treats Approach

We're not going to tell you King Arthur's mix is a bad choice, their page backs up what it claims and the brand has more baking history than we do. What we'd say instead is that we built our mix around a different idea: name the protein on the label, skip the produce puree, and keep the ingredient list short enough to read in five seconds. If you want to try it, our Baked Biscuit Starter Kit comes with mix and cutters to get a first batch going, and our guide to molds and cookie cutters covers the tools either mix needs.

Homemade biscuits still count toward your dog's daily treat budget, generally no more than about 10 percent of daily calories. Introduce any new mix gradually, and if your dog has a grain sensitivity or a known allergy, check the ingredient list, ours or anyone else's, before baking a batch. Our guide to flour types for dogs is a good next stop if you're weighing recipes.