Recipes
Tiramisu Overnight Oats
This decadent breakfast option tastes just like the well-loved Italian dessert, while being refined sugar-free and balanced. Who wouldn’t love an easy delicious dessert for breakfast?
This one needs no introduction. Who doesn’t love the classic flavors of coffee and mascarpone in a delicious Italian tiramisu? Plus, why turn down the opportunity to caffeinate on-the-go. Your balanced breakfast, your shot of espresso, and your dessert all in one jar!
I’ve been seeing a lot of tiramisu overnight oat recipes on social media lately, and I figured surely everyone is onto something great here. Tiramisu is probably my favorite dessert, but just in case I’m forgetting about something else, I’ll say it’s in my top 5. These oats replicate that decadence very, very well, especially if you opt for the mascarpone option. This tip isn’t in the recipe, it’s a body text exclusive: add some vanilla bean paste (or vanilla essence) and a dash of maple syrup to the mascarpone-yogurt combo.
These oats are naturally high in protein from the yogurt and cheese, but I always like to add protein powder to my overnight oats too. I like unflavored collagen protein, and that would be my recommendation for all of my recipes, to be completely honest. It’s currently not a very accessible option for vegans and vegetarians, so if you have a favorite vanilla protein powder, I would use that here and I would also probably skip the maple syrup.
What I love about these oats is that the smell and the appearance get you really far before you’ve even tasted it. Every time I make this, I’m pretty convinced that I’ve made a tiramisu. Now, I won’t lie and say this will rival the best tiramisu you’ve ever had (although, depending on your personal taste you might prefer this one). The only thing that will taste 100% like an authentic tiramisu will be… well, an authentic tiramisu. This comes super close, though, for a bowl of oats, you will not be disappointed. Especially considering this is lower in sugar, and higher in fiber, but I’m not sure if it’s higher in protein on account of the egg yolks that normally go into a tiramisu.
If you follow my tip above for the yogurt-mascarpone cream, it will make it a little extra special and decadent. Use your favorite coffee and a good unsweetened cocoa powder and thank me later.
Tiramisu Overnight Oats
Ingredients
Instructions
Notes
- To make these vegan, use a plant-based yogurt and omit the mascarpone cheese.
- If you don't have unsweetened cocoa powder on hand, shave some of your favorite dark chocolate on top instead.
Nutrition Facts
Calories
424.82Fat
17.95Sat. Fat
7.95Carbs
53.35Fiber
8.22Net carbs
45.11Sugar
19.64Protein
13.41Sodium
93.94Cholesterol
33.54Nutritional value for oats may vary greatly depending on choice of yogurt and milk. Value calculated with two tablespoons of maple syrup and without the addition of the protein powder, as values can vary greatly from powder to powder.
Chocolate Hazelnut Overnight Oats
These decadent overnight oats are refined sugar-free and high in protein, for a perfect breakfast that’s quick, easy, and tastes just like dessert!
I’ve been pretty busy and stressed the last few weeks and I felt like having some meal-prepped food on hand because ordering in all the time is a) pretty expensive and b) doesn’t always provide the kind of nourishment I’m looking for. So I thought about the options I had and, honestly, I don’t love reheating food a lot of the time. Enter overnight oats. I’ve been seeing people hype these up since forever. I had actually never tried them before, though. I’ve had stovetop oats plenty of times, baked oats a handful of times, I’ve even made and had plenty of oat bakes.
Thinking about the kind of flavors I would want from overnight oats, I thought about some of the more classic routes I could go. Like banana and peanut butter. Honestly, though, as much as I love that flavor combination, there’s something so fun about making your breakfast into something that could actually be dessert—while keeping it balanced enough to sustain you through your morning.
For this recipe, I took inspiration from the classic combination of chocolate and hazelnut. Think Nutella, Kinder Bueno, and Ferrero Rocher. I also think strawberries dipped into some melted chocolate hazelnut spread is chef’s kiss, so I love dressing these oats up with strawberries and an extra drizzle of this refined sugar-free chocolate hazelnut spread.
Chocolate Hazelnut Overnight Oats
Ingredients
Instructions
Notes
- To keep these oats refined sugar-free, use a high quality chocolate hazelnut spread that is refined sugar-free.
- The amount of maple syrup you might want to add will depend on the sweetness of your chocolate hazelnut spread and your personal taste, my chocolate hazelnut spread is sweetened with coconut sugar, so I don't personally like to add any more sweetness to the oats.
- You can substitute the chocolate hazelnut spread with hazelnut butter and an extra spoon of cocoa powder.
- If you don't like chocolate hazelnut, you can make this into a chocolate peanut butter overnight oats by following the tip above and substituting the hazelnut butter with peanut butter.
- The best option for a protein powder that is versatile, sugar-free, and minimally processed is a good collagen powder.
- For vegans, there's vegan collagen powder derived from yeast but that's yet to become a commonly accessible ingredient, for the time being, for this recipe, I would use a high-quality, refined sugar-free chocolate plant protein powder.
- To make this gluten-free, be sure to use gluten-free oats (which are just non-contaminated), and check the label on your other ingredients to be sure they weren't produced with the potential for cross contamination.
Nutrition Facts
Calories
465.43Fat
16.63Sat. Fat
8.8Carbs
68.53Fiber
12.51Net carbs
55.98Sugar
29.11Protein
13.78Sodium
80.97Cholesterol
14.64Nutritional value for oats may vary greatly depending on choice of chocolate hazelnut spread and milk. Value calculated with two tablespoons of maple syrup and without the addition of the protein powder, as values can vary greatly from powder to powder.
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