Peanut Butter and Chocolate Overnight Oats

This post was sponsored by Silk and Collective Bias, Inc. All opinions are mine alone.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Overnight Oats – a vegan, gluten-free, healthy breakfast that will feel more like dessert than breakfast. Sweetened with maple syrup, no added refined sugar.

Looking for a product to help make overnight oats even easier? Check out this review on the company Oats Overnight.

Considering my overnight french toast was such a hit, I thought I’d try another “overnight breakfast” fad – oats. Breakfast is a struggle for me because as I’ve shared before, I am not a morning person. This year one of my many goals is to make mornings a bit easier. If chocolate + peanut butter won’t get me out of bed, I don’t know what will.

I know I’m not alone when I say 2016 was a rough year. I’m determined for 2017 to be the complete opposite of that, meaning amazing. New year, new me. New life, new breakfast.

While I’m not vegan (because, cheese) I do try to leave out dairy when I can. One of the ways I’ve been doing as of late is replacing milk with almond milk. I chose to partner with Silk Milk for this recipe because their brand is carrageenan-free, with no artificial colors or flavors. And those are things we love.

Silk also just came out with a new dairy-free yogurt. Originally I was including the yogurt in these overnight oats, but since they can’t be labeled as completely vegan I left it out of the final recipe. However it makes a good breakfast side if you aren’t a strict vegan but still want to go dairy-free. It comes in 6 flavors (I tried the vanilla) and gives you 6 grams of plant-based protein.

Back to the oats. Chocolate + peanut butter seemed like a no-brainer for the flavor combo, but it did take some recipe testing to figure out the right consistency.

I ended up preferring equal parts almond milk and oats (3/4 cups each), with a tablespoon of maple syrup, and 2 tablespoons of both peanut butter and cacao or cocoa powder. I tried one with chia seeds, but I decided those should stay out of my peanut butter cups.

This is another one of those recipes you can modify if you like – depending on consistency and sweetness preferences.

After trying 5 different variations I still didn’t realize that most people use instant or quick oats for these overnight oat recipes, and I used rolled oats. They are pretty similar, so use what you’ve got!

If you don’t like the idea of cold oats in the morning, I also tried this heated.

The idea of overnight oats to make it a quick grab-and-go option in the morning, but no judgment if you prefer to pour it in a bowl and heat it up instead.

Funny side story – I was shopping for this recipe at Walmart right around an ice/snow storm that hit here in NC about a week ago.

North Carolina basically shuts down at the mere mention of snow, and everyone makes a mad run to the store for milk and bread like we’re going to starve to death. So needless to say, the shelves were pretty bare the first Walmart run I made.

I went back a few days later (when it was then 70 degrees, no lie) and was able to get a better picture of where you can find the Silk products. They are releasing new packaging any day now.