Are our Oreo overnight oats a breakfast, snack, or dessert? We'll let you decide! Our healthy oats are high protein plus they're packed with cookies and cream flavor.
You'll love these protein cookies and cream overnight oats!
Not only is our cookie and cream overnight oats recipe super creamy and delicious, they have 22 g of protein, 8 g of fiber, and 405 calories per serving! Great for breakfast meal prep for the week!
Ever since I started tracking macros back in 2023 to help build muscle and for losing weight, I've been eating overnight oats almost every single day! We take our oats seriously and consider ourselves the experts. 😉
Love overnight oats for breakfast? <3 Be sure to add our chocolate protein powder overnight oats, banana overnight oats with chia seeds, applesauce Greek yogurt oats, and our chia Greek yogurt oats to your meal prep rotation!
We're going to show you...
- how to make an easy Oreo overnight oats recipe, whether you want 1 serving or you want to make 5 servings for the week.
- ways to make these high protein if you don't want to use Greek yogurt
- how to meal prep the oats for the week so your Oreos stay crisp and fresh
- lots of variations and substitutions to make this your own!
Key ingredients
- Old fashioned rolled oats - we used gluten free oats, please do not use quick oats or steel cut oats.
- Almond milk - you can use any type of milk you want here. Cow milk, oat milk, soy milk, etc.
- Greek yogurt - we show you how to use blended cottage cheese if you don't want to use yogurt
- Protein powder - we used our favorite chocolate fudge protein powder, that same brand makes a cookies and cream protein powder if you want a stronger cookie flavor. Just using chocolate protein powder keeps costs down if you already have it. Vanilla would be fine too!
- Vanilla extract - optional if you don't have it, but a tiny bit does add a nice, warm flavor
- cookies and cream cookies - we used Whole Foods brand to keep these as "healthy" as we could. Oreos is the most popular brand, Trader Joes are terrific too. You'll only need 1-2 for each serving.
How to make these without Greek yogurt
Want to make creamy high protein cookie and cream oats with no Greek yogurt? You can just use 2% cottage cheese instead! You'll want to blend 1 tablespoon of milk with the cottage cheese in a blender, then mix it in with the recipe. So good!
Variations & substitutions
- Minty variation: you can use chocolate mint cookies and cream as a variation and add a tiny itty splash of peppermint extract instead of vanilla for a stronger mint flavor.
- Use cookies and cream protein powder instead of chocolate or vanilla for a stronger cookie flavor.
How to make cookies and cream protein overnight oats
Whether you're using 1 Oreo for a lighter cookies and cream flavor or 2 Oreos per serving, you'll want to chop half of the cookie/cookies for the oats mix and crush half to save for later to crumble over the top.
In a small bowl, combine the old fashioned rolled oats, milk of choice, protein powder, sweetener, vanilla extract, and Greek yogurt. Stir to combine.
Cover the bowl or transfer the mix to a mason jar or overnight oats jar. Place in the fridge for at least 3 hours or overnight.
When you're ready to eat the cookies and cream oats, sprinkle the crushed Oreo on top as a garnish. Dig in and enjoy!
When making overnight oats...
- Our recipe shows you how to make 1 serving. That makes it very easy to scale up depending on how many servings you want. For 2 servings, just double the recipe. Want to make 5 servings for your whole week? Multiple them by 5 or portion each serving into mason jars if that's easier.
- If you're feeling indulgent, use 2 cookies per serving. If you're keeping a close watch on macros, just use one or try to find a sugar free cookies and cream protein powder. The macros in the nutrition section assume you're using one cookie.
- if you're adding crushed cookie as a garnish for your oats, add it when you go to serve them to keep them fresh
Reader questions
Overnight oats can be an important part of any health or weight loss plan. All of the oats recipes on our site are 400 calories or less per serving. They can be a balanced part of your weight loss plan if you still keep your calories and macros in check for the day.
You'll want to be mindful of what toppings you add, as they can greatly increase the calories, sugar, and carbs for any recipe just like us using Oreo's in this version.
Leftover oats will keep for up to 5 days in the fridge. We recommend that you add any toppings the day you go to eat them so they don't get soggy or go bad in the case of something like defrosted frozen fruit could.
You can definitely heat overnight oats in either the microwave or on a stovetop. Think of these as a reverse oatmeal loaded with fun flavors and protein. Microwave in 20-30 increments and then check to see if they need to be heated for longer. Or you can simmer the oats on low in a small pan.
More breakfast oats
- Cheesecake overnight oats with cottage cheese
- Blended cottage cheese overnight oats
- Banana peanut butter oatmeal cups
- Baked oatmeal with blueberries
Recipe
Cookies and Cream Overnight Oats with Yogurt
Ingredients
- ½ cup old fashioned rolled oats
- ⅔ cup almond milk or dairy milk or other plant based milk
- ½ scoop chocolate protein powder (15 g)
- 2 teaspoon maple syrup or honey
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup 2% Greek yogurt or cottage cheese (see note below)
- 1-2 Oreo(s) or cookies and cream cookie (or more than 1)
Instructions
- In a small bowl, combine the rolled oats, milk, chocolate protein powder, maple syrup, vanilla extract, and Greek yogurt. Stir well.
- Whether you're using 1 Oreo for a lighter cookies and cream flavor or 2 Oreos (more carbs), you'll want to chop half for the oats mix and crush half to save for later to crumble over the top.
- Mix the chopped cookie in with the rolled oats mixture.
- Put a lid on the bowl or transfer the mix to a mason jar or overnight oats jar. Refrigerate for at least 3 hours or overnight.
- When you go to eat your cookies and cream oats, sprinkle the crushed Oreo over the top. Dig in and enjoy!
Notes
- To substitute cottage cheese for the Greek yogurt, blend the cottage cheese in a blender with 1 tablespoon of the milk until it's a yogurt like consistency ( small tiny little lumps is ok). Use as directed in the recipe.
- For a stronger Oreo flavor without the cookie or calories, you can swap the chocolate protein powder for cookies and cream protein powder. You could also totally leave out the cookies to lower the carbs in this recipe and just use cookie protein powder.
- We made this as a single serving recipe, so to make 2 servings just double the recipe. Likewise, if you want to make it for 5 days of breakfasts, x everything by 5 and put into mason jars for your week.
- If you're sprinkling crushed cookies over the oats, do it when you go to eat them otherwise they'll get soggy.
- We used Whole Food cookies and cream cookies, you can use your favorite brand.
- The nutrition included one Oreo cookie, adjust the calories and such if you add more than one.
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