Who wouldn’t want to eat a giant oatmeal cookie for breakfast? This overnight breakfast cookie lets you do just that!
No bake, vegan, with just 6 ingredients.
A single serving oatmeal breakfast cookie you can easily customize.
Mix the ingredients together the night before to have a wholesome breakfast the next morning, ready whenever you want it!
Readers also love this Almond Flour Banana Bread
The “single lady” breakfast cookie was inspired by two things.
First was an email I received from a reader who asked if I could come up with a recipe similar to the Erin Baker Breakfast Cookies sold in stores.
Her email reminded me of an idea I’d written down years ago but had never actually gotten around to trying.
There’s a recipe on my blog for Snickerdoodle Oatmeal, and one day a blogger named Abbie (whose blog is sadly no longer in existence) recreated my oatmeal recipe in the form of a giant breakfast cookie and posted about it on her blog.
She combined all of the ingredients in a bowl, spread the batter on a plate, and let the extra moisture evaporate overnight so it turned into a soft and delicious no-bake snickerdoodle breakfast cookie.
Her idea was so brilliant, and I don’t know why I didn’t try it until now! For more healthy breakfast ideas, be sure to check out the link below:
The flavor possibilities are endless…
Peanut Butter
Chocolate Brownie
Coconut
Banana Walnut
Cinnamon Raisin
Espresso Chocolate Chip
Cookie Dough
Watch the overnight breakfast cookie video above.
Overnight Breakfast Cookie
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 1/2 cup mashed banana or applesauce
- 2 tbsp milk of choice
- 1 1/2 to 2 tbsp protein powder or flour, such as almond or oat flour
- 1 to 2 tbsp nut butter or allergy-friendly sub
- 1/8 tsp salt
- optionsl add-ins such as chia seeds, raisins, shredded coconut, or chocolate chips
Instructions
- Stir all ingredients together. Spread out on a plate. Refrigerate overnight, uncovered or with a paper towel placed gently on top. Frost if desired, or add toppings such as melted peanut butter and chocolate. Enjoy!View Nutrition Facts
Notes
More Healthy Breakfast Options
Or these flourless Keto Blueberry Muffins
Thanks for your wonderful and simple recipes!
Just wondering why my nutrition calculations never match up. It says the whole recipe is 241 calories, but just 1/2 cup of oats (150 calories) and 1 tbsp of nut butter (100 calories) adds up to more, not to mention the other ingredients. Where am I going wrong?!?! Thanks for clarifying 😀
Thanks for catching this. It looks like the online calculator Katie uses has some ingredients’ calories listed incorrectly in the database. I’ve just let her know to check on this recipe and fix it accordingly, so it should be updated today. Sorry for the trouble, and thank you again for noticing this.
Jason (media relations)
Thank you for the reply ?
This was so easy and delicious. I love how it can be customized. If I have time in the morning, I bake the cookie for a super happy morning. If I don’t have time then I eat it straight from the fridge for an equally happy morning. Thanks for sharing your creativity and food genius with the world!
I really enjoy this recipe! I actually have been using quick oats, because that is what I had after making s batch of regular no bake cookies a while back. However, I assume that I like the texture I get from the quick oats better than I would rolled. And I’m not aware that there are any real differences nutritionally. I am wondering, though, does anyone find that they have been able to actually pick it up like a cookie and eat it? The outside gets solid, but the inside is gooey, requiring me to have to use utensils. It’s not a huge deal, but I was hoping that I would be able to pick it up and take it to go. If someone could give me their experience with this, I’d appreciate it. Thanks.
I subbed sweet potato purée for banana/applesauce & worked great!
I made this last night but it didn’t set. :/ I’m not sure why. I’m going to give another shot, because it was delicious even with a spoon! 😉 Thanks for sharing!
I just made this and it was delicious! I subbed the apple sauce for mashed banana. The portion is pretty big so I actually split it in two (otherwise it’s a 600calorie breakfast!) People in these comments keep mentioning how they couldn’t pick it up/it didn’t set. If you watch the video on the post, you can see Katie eats it with a spoon… so I don’t think it is meant to be picked up and set like an actual cookie, It’s more like of a set cookie dough. Anyway, really good and I will 100% be making this again!
I made this recipe it was delicious. had some left and rolled them
into little bites dipped them in white chocolate then put in freezer.
eat them frozen delicious.
I made mine for the first time last night and it came out delicious
my god, your recipes are not only amazing but so simple!
It was so easy fast and delicious. I added pumpkin pie spice, cardamom, and cacao chips. I love that you change up the flavor so easily.
Yeah, I got 428 calories, even WITH skim milk and limiting the protein powder to 1&1/2 tbs, as well and only one tbs peanut butter. Definitely gotta be careful with the add-ins! Yikes!
Along with the add-ins, skim milk is also much higher in calories than cashewmilk or unsweetened almond milk, which have just 25-30 per cup if you wanted to look into one of those options for baking.