A creamy and indulgent high-protein overnight oats recipe made in a jar to make for an easy, healthy breakfast or on-the-go high-protein snack! Swirled with almond hazelnut butter and chocolate chips these cookie dough oats make for a delicious, satisfying breakfast or post-workout meal.
Mornings can be a mess with kids. Everyone is rushing as you try to gather lunches, homework, and clothes to rush out the door on time.
Cooking a healthy breakfast just doesn’t end up high on the list.
Thank god for grab-and-go breakfast options! And these overnight oats with protein powder fits exactly that.
Why You’ll LOVE Cookie Dough Oats
- 15g of protein per serving to keep you full
- Only 230 calories per serving
- The recipe works for breakfast, as a high-protein snack or even a post-workout meal
- It tastes like dessert
- Oats are more digestible after being soaked. So, this recipe is great for your tummy
- Kiddos love it also
- Make the night before and grab it while you walk out the door (or toss it to the kids to eat in the van on the way to school!)
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Ingredients You Need
These protein overnight oats are made with a base of vegan protein powder, gluten-free oats, and chia seeds to absorb all the liquid.
All of these are essential gluten-free pantry staples.
The kind of protein you use will make a significant difference to the recipe (scroll down to learn more).
The mixture is sweetened naturally with the protein powder, nut butter, and then a dash of paleo, mini chocolate chips because… cookie dough!
StStep By Step Photos To Make It
How To Make Protein Overnight Oats
Making the recipe is as easy as pouring, mixing, and letting it sit! This is why it’s perfect to whip up as a fast breakfast or grab-and-go snack.
- Add the dry ingredients into a bowl and mix
- Pour in the wet ingredients one by one
- Mix it all together to make sure it’s coated and that the nut butter is mixed in evenly
- Stir in the chocolate chips
- Portion into mason jars and let sit in the fridge overnight or for a minimum of four hours
Important Teaching Tips
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The protein powder you choose will make a difference in the texture and the flavor. Since the cookie dough oats do not contain any additional sweetener, if your protein powder is not flavored nicely, the oats won’t be either.
Check out which brand I used for this recipe below.
Likewise, each vegan protein powder has a unique mixture of proteins. The best one for this recipe is not one that is based on pea protein. Pea protein absorbs liquid like crazy, if your protein powder is pea protein-based (like my favorite Genuine Health one) you’ll need to add more liquid (about ¼ cup extra) otherwise the oats will come out super dense and almost sticky, not creamy.
Learn more about the best vegan protein powders and how to use them.
The recipe can be made nut-free (if you need it for a school snack) by using sunbutter but you’ll want to add 1 tablespoon of honey or maple syrup to make up the flavor.
The Best Vegan Protein Powder For The Recipe
This recipe tastes best when made with Botanica Perfect Protein.
Botanica Perfect Protein is a unique blend of quinoa, coconut, and brown rice. This makes it dairy, gluten and soy-free, organic, vegan, vegetarian, and non-GMO.
Botanica won the Alive awards in 2017 for both Consumers' & Retailers choice for functional foods.
It’s a great-tasting protein powder and more similar to whey in that it doesn’t absorb or fluff like many other protein powders.
Plus, the classic flavors of Botanica are delicious.
You can grab it off Amazon or from Well Dot Ca
Frequently Asked Questions About Protein Overnight Oats
Any nut butter will work for the oats but almond hazelnut is the most indulgent one. Some nut butters are sweetened so check the ingredients list before you purchase. The recipe does not use sweetened nut butter.
A hemp/coconut milk blend was used for the cookie dough oatmeal but any plant-based milk should work.
Oats by themselves contain a good amount of plant-based protein (roughly 11 grams per 100g of oats) along with many other healthy nutrients. Adding protein powder to overnight oats, however, takes the recipe from an okay source of protein to a high protein snack or breakfast.
Yes! If making hot oatmeal you’ll want to add the protein powder to them after boiling. If making cold oatmeal (like overnight oats) you can whisk in the protein powder along with the other ingredients. Know that the type of protein powder you choose (whey, vegan, etc) will affect both the flavor and the texture of the recipe.
Overnight oats can be used to achieve almost any fitness goal depending on how they’re made. Making the overnight oats more calorie-dense is a great way to use them for bodybuilding. Likewise, scaling back the calories and carbohydrates can be a great way to use them for weight loss.
Protein requirements vary from person to person based on their personal goals. However, a good rule of thumb is to take in 1 gram of protein per pound of ideal body weight. This ratio will lend itself well to weight loss, muscle building and health goals.
More High-Protein Recipes You Might Enjoy
- Easy protein cookies
- Peanut butter and jam protein balls
- Edible cookie dough
- No bake almond coconut bounce balls
- Savory blueberry protein oatmeal
- Strawberries and cream breakfast parfait
- High protein yogurt pancakes
- 4-ingredient protein pancakes
- High protein snack recipes
- 200 calorie recipes
- Easy breakfast recipes
Overnight Oats With Protein powder (Vegan)
Equipment
- small mason jars
Ingredients
- ¼ cup gluten-free oats
- ¼ cup vegan protein powder *see notes
- ½ cup hemp milk
- 1 tbs almond hazelnut butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- 1 tbs chia seeds
- ⅛ cup mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, mix together the dry ingredients (except chocolate chips).
- One by one add in the wet ingredients.
- Whisk until smooth and no clumps from the nut butter remain.
- Stir in the chocolate chips
- Portion into two mason jars making sure that there is even liquid in both
- Tighten the lid on the jar and let sit for four hours or overnight.
Notes
- The protein powder you choose will make a difference to the texture and the flavor. Since the cookie dough oats do not contain an additional sweetener, if your protein powder is not flavored nicely, the oats won’t be either. Read the blog post to help choose the best protein powder for the recipe
- If your protein powder is pea protein based (like my favorite Genuine Health one) you’ll need to add more liquid (about ¼ cup extra) otherwise the oats will come out super dense and almost sticky, not creamy.
- Learn more about the best vegan protein powders and how to use them.
- The recipe can be made nut-free (if you need it for a school snack) by using sunbutter but you’ll want to add 1 tablespoon of honey or maple syrup to make up the flavor.
- Grab all the ingredients you need from my Pantry Staples
Nutrition
Enjoy these vegan overnight oats as part of a delicious but healthy breakfast, on-the-go snack or post-workout meal. Overnight oats with protein powder are an easy way to sneak more protein into your diet while still enjoying something indulgent.
Vanessa
Such a great way to start the morning! These definitely keep me filled up and fueled for a while!
fitasamamabear
Yes! And cookie dough flavor never hurts hehe
Tessa Zundel
Thank you so much for this recipe AND for the FAQ section! I was going to leave a comment and ask a few questions but you answered them all in that section. 🙂
fitasamamabear
Yay! Winning lol I try to get them all, glad it helped!
Colleen
Overnight oats is a favourite breakfast for me and now I have a delicious new flavour. Thanks for sharing!
fitasamamabear
It just helps keep mornings so SIMPLE. And we all need more simple. Glad you can add it into your rotation!
nancy
wow this sounds like a wonderful and filling breakfast! pinned for later!
fitasamamabear
Yes! It's super filling but also... cookie dough *drool* hehe
Terri Gilson
OMG so yummy! I can't believe this is healthy for me too 🙂