These creamy overnight oats are one breakfast that’s definitely worth waking up for!
Your instant breakfast awaits!
In this overnight oats recipe, you basically just throw a bunch of ingredients into a jar the night before, and breakfast magically appears on the table in the morning.
If you normally find yourself with no time in the morning or no motivation to make an elaborate breakfast, the “overnight oats” method could be perfect for you.
Over five years ago, I first published something called the Voluminous Oatmeal Trick, and it spread through the internet like lightning.
Overnight oats are similar to voluminous oats in that you make them up the night before. But this time it’s even easier:
There is no cooking required whatsoever!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Overnight Oats
Chocolate Chip Cookie Overnight Oats
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup vanilla yogurt - such as Wholesoy
- 1/2 cup milk of choice
- optional, 1 tbsp chia seeds
- optional chocolate chips or cacao nibs
- sweetener of choice or melted banana, as desired
Instructions
In a small mason jar or lidded container, stir together all dry ingredients. Add remaining ingredients and stir well. Cover the container and let sit overnight. The next day, stir the overnight oats and enjoy. Depending on your yogurt and milk of choice, you may or may not wish to add any sugar or sweetener.
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Bonus points for the spoon! 😀
We always soak our oats but this is a fab recipe! My kids will love it and I can adjust the recipe to fit my macros. Genius!
Mmmm you can’t go wrong with overnight oats 🙂 And I love that spoon! Where did you buy it? ^ ^
Fantastic! Anything cookie-esque is good in my book.
All of your recipes sound so delicious and I’m dying to try your oatmeal ones. Unfortunately, I have a sensitivity to oats and am unable to eat them. Is there another grain you recommend as a substitution , granted some tweaking may be needed? Thank you!
You can always experiment with spelt flakes or quinoa flakes or something. Be sure to report back if you do!
can you use steel cut oats for this recipe?
I haven’t tried; but if you experiment, be sure to report back!
Oatmeal and chocolate chips one of my favorite combos, yum….but that spoon, it’s just too gorgeous, beautiful pictures!
Your voluminous oatmeal trick was magical! This looks so yummy!!
Sounds awesome, Katie- thank you so much! I even have some vanilla almond yogurt in the fridge… I rarely buy it, so this may be a sign =)
Congrats on your book signing! You’re doing amazing. Isn’t it crazy to be able to say “Over five years ago, I first published…”? Time is weird. Thank you for this recipe =)
PS- spoon totally caught my eye, too!
Can you heat this up?
Sure!