A nourishing and FUN breakfast, Cookie Dough Overnight Oats are easy to make and perfect for busy mornings. It’s thicker than traditional overnight oats and packs in protein thanks to chia seeds and Greek yogurt.
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Cookie Dough, for Breakfast?!
Overnight oats is a great breakfast option for those who are rushed in the mornings! It’s easy to put together the night before and so satisfying to top and enjoy as breakfast!
I started making Greek Yogurt Overnight Oats a while back and love the extra protein and creamy texture it adds. This variation uses less liquid to make a thicker, dough-like consistency, and then adds the flavors of chocolate chip cookie dough!
Chocolate is definitely a regular in my breakfast rotation. Use high quality dark chocolate (or sugar free chips), and it’s a perfectly suitable breakfast option.
What You’ll Need
- Oats (this brand is certified gluten free and glyphosate free)
- Chia Seeds
- Greek Yogurt
- Almond Milk (optional, to thin to desired texture. Coconut milk beverage, oat milk, or other milk of choice also work!)
- Vanilla Extract
- SunButter (or other nut butter, like cashew butter).
- Banana (frozen banana adds the best texture and is sweeter than fresh banana!)
- Dark Chocolate Chips (or chopped dark chocolate, mini chocolate chips, or even cacao nibs!)
- Sea Salt
- Optional: sweetener of choice, like allulose, maple syrup, or honey.
How to Make Cookie Dough Overnight Oats
Step 1: Combine the oats, chia seeds, and Greek yogurt to a storage container and mix to combine. This will make a very thick overnight oats. If you’d like it to have a thinner consistency, add 2 tablespoons up to 1/3 cup of almond milk. Remember it will thicken considerably when the oats and chia seeds absorb the liquid.
Step 2: Chop half a frozen banana (or fresh banana) to add to the oats. Also add vanilla extract, coconut, a pinch of sea salt, and nut butter, and stir well to combine. Mix in chocolate or other additions, like walnuts or pecans.
How to Store or Meal Prep Cookie Dough Overnight Oats
Meal Prep Oats: Overnight oats are a great meal prep breakfast! Everything in this recipe can be mixed together ahead of time, except the banana. Don’t add the banana until ready to enjoy the cookie dough oats. It will brown and it gets watery in the mixture.
Store individual servings in a mason jar or small glass storage containers.
This recipe makes 1 serving, but feel free to make enough for multiple days and store them in individual servings!
Variations on Cookie Dough Oats
Mix up this cookie dough overnight oats recipe with your own additions or substitutions!
Add Berries: Fruit is great with the flavors in this recipe! I suggest adding chopped raspberries, strawberries, or blueberries to the top.
Don’t like banana? Banana is the main source of sweetener in this recipe. If you omit the banana, replace it with a little maple syrup, honey, or allulose sweetener.
Too Thick?: If your Greek yogurt is very thick (as it should be!), this recipe will turn out very thick as well. I enjoy that texture because it reminds me of cookie dough! If you’d like more of a traditional overnight oats texture but the cookie dough flavor, just add 1/3 cup of a milk of choice. I like unsweetened vanilla almond milk.
Why Add Nut Butter? Nut butter helps give this a creamier, thicker texture and adds healthy fats and a great subtle flavor. I love SunButter in my oats, but use your favorite nut butter! Almond butter, cashew butter and peanut butter all work!
Add Protein: Add 1 scoop of your favorite protein powder and 1/4 cup of your favorite type of milk to the oat, chia seed, and yogurt mixture. Use a good flavored protein powder. I recommend this unsweetened and unflavored whey protein.
Other Make-Ahead Breakfast Options
- Overnight Oats with Greek Yogurt
- High Protein Chocolate Overnight Oats
- Chia Seed Protein Pudding
- Pumpkin Chia Pudding
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Cookie Dough Overnight Oats
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Greek yogurt plain, unsweetened
- 3 tablespoons oats
- 1 tablespoon chia seeds
- 1/2 banana (I use frozen, but fresh will work too!)
- 2 teaspoons sunflower butter (or almond butter)
- 1 teaspoon dark chocolate chips (I use 85% dark chocolate, chopped)
- 1 teaspoon shredded unsweetened coconut
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- pinch sea salt
- sweetener of choice optional, allulose, maple syrup, honey, to taste
Instructions
- Add oats, chia seeds, and yogurt to a bowl, and mix. Leave in the fridge for 1 hour to overnight. If you'd like a thinner textured oatmeal, add 2 tablespoons – 1/3 cup of milk of choice.
- Chop the frozen banana (or fresh banana), and add the nut butter, coconut, vanilla, pinch of sea salt, and chocolate chips, Mix together and enjoy!
That’s right 🙂 I love easy meals like this that taste more like dessert!
The cookie dough look really tasty and since it’s oats it is also healthy.
Yes, healthy is important! All the ingredients in here are good for you- just mixed magically so it tastes like dessert!
another dessert I can try at home now. =D
Let me know if you do try it!
Super yummy. I love this kind of a healthy food. Not so fatty and its good to our body.
Actually, it is pretty high in fat. But the good kind– the kind from seeds and dark chocolate 🙂 We need healthy fats.
Oh, I have tried overnight oats last weekend. I would love to try this. I hope I can find chia seeds in my city. What is the alternative if I can’t find one?
Overnight oats are a great summer option. Where do you live? When I first moved to Malaysia 4 years ago, I couldn’t find them, and had to bring them back with me when I visited the States. Now they are everywhere! You might find them somewhere if you ask around. They are getting really popular. If you can’t, I would just add another 2 tablespoons of oats. I don’t always add the chia, but I like to include them for the omega 3s!
Thanks for the reply! I live in the Philippines– further down south in Northern Mindanao. I use the oats instead.
The Philippines- I haven’t been there yet, but it’s high on my list! I hope you enjoy.
Ooh this looks so yummy and easy to make! Great tip about keeping banana’s in the freezer too, I hate eating them too ripe
I’m there with you! And here in the tropics, they are ripe in a day or two, and overripe a half a day later!
Your recipe is great for healthy conscious people and very easy to prepare. Cookie dough..you made it right.
Yes– healthy food can taste good! I really like preparing things like this for my friends who are junk food fanatics– showing them how good real, clean ingredients can taste!
This looks extremely yummy! Looking at this while fasting is making it even harder to focus 😀 Thanks for the ingredients, instructions and the notes.
Thanks 🙂 Maybe you could make breaking fast a little more interesting by trying my no-bake German Chocolate Cookie Bars– made predominately with dates!
WOw! it looks yummy! And oh, I guess I can never prepare for something like that for myself when I travel. hehehe
It takes less than 5 minutes– and think about how much better it is than eating something packaged at a convenience stop. I know a lot of people like airline food, but I completely refuse to eat it. I always take the time to pack healthy options! I feel so much better after traveling if I’ve taken care of my body along the way.
I want one! I could eat this on post workout.
Yes, it would be perfect after a workout! A great snack option.
Does cookie dough means that it needs to be baked?
I wonder if they can be kept overnight? Or does it have to be made fresh?