Today, I have a new overnight oats recipe that is beyond delicious. My banana cream pie overnight oats are perfectly creamy, filled with banana flavour and an additional little crunch from the crushed graham cracker. Such an easy and filling breakfast that tastes like dessert.
Overnight oats are my go to versatile breakfast as they’re filling, healthy and easy to mixup! I absolutely love baking with banana so I knew I needed some banana oats. Plus, who doesn’t always have a couple bananas on the counter that you need to use up!
My banana cream pie overnight oats would also be great for make ahead breakfast for kids and toddlers. they’re easy to pack in a snack bag and can even be eaten in the car if you’re okay risking the potential mess and cleanup.
For some other versions of overnight oats, check out my black forest overnight oats, my strawberry overnight oats or my brownie batter overnight oats for the ultimate treat.
Can I Use Overripe Bananas?
I don’t recommend overripe bananas in this recipe as it can be a bit too strong of a flavour as they do start to slightly ferment once they’re overripe. They’ll also have a more mushy texture.
Why I Love Overnight Oats
- Super simple and quick to make. Only takes about 5 minutes.
- Easy to grab out of the fridge in the morning and take with me to work.
- Easy to eat when I’m busy at work. I can have a couple bites while I’m going over patient’s imaging at my desk and then come back to it later.
- Adding to the previous reason, when I take 3-4 hours to eat my oats throughout the morning, they taste good straight out of the fridge and once they’ve warmed up to room temperature. Perfect breakfast when you don’t actually get a proper break to eat. While some people may say I could eat before work, I don’t care to get up earlier in the morning and I’m never hungry until I’ve been up for 1-2 hours. I know many other people have the same problem.
- They are super healthy and easy to add various toppings too like berries for added nutrition.
- There are a million different flavour combinations. Believe me, I’ve got about 30 different recipes written down that I need to test. This is important to me because I find I get bored of foods quick. If I can eat a different flavour every day of the week, I’m likely not going to get bored.
Benefits of Oats
- Oats are a great source of fibre, mostly soluble fibre which helps slow down digestion and keeps you feeling full longer. The type of soluble fibre also aids gut health by supporting healthy gut bacteria. This can help reduce inflammation and symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.
- While many people say oats have no protein and aren’t a good thing to eat due to this, we seem to be a very protein obsessed culture currently, this isn’t actually true. While oats aren’t a high source of protein, they do contain about 4g per serving and include a good balance of essential amino acids. This is still important as you do need all of the essential amino acids in your diet, not just some of them.
- Oats are also high in iron, an essential mineral that many people don’t get enough, especially women. Iron is essential for making hemoglobin which is how your body carries oxygen throughout your body.
- As well as iron, oats are also a good source of other trace minerals like manganese, copper and phosphorus. These all aid your body in various tasks like bone building, collagen forming, creating red blood cells, etc. These are just a few of the benefits of eating oats and a few of the reasons I love them so much. If you’d like more information, check out https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4325078/ or https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/food-features/oats/.
Baking Tips
- For best results, once you’ve mixed everything together, let rest in the fridge overnight for at least 6 hours. This helps the oats get nice and soft and gives you a creamier consistency.
- I don’t recommend overripe bananas for this recipe but see below for some other ways to use up overripe bananas.
- I create my recipes based off weights so I recommend measuring by weights if you own a scale. It’s actually so much easier and makes for much less cleanup. I wish I had baked by weight from the beginning, I could never go back now.
Overripe Banana Recipes
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Banana Cream Pie Overnight Oats
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup (55g) plain nonfat Greek yogurt
- 1/3 cup + 1 tbsp (90g) unsweetened oat milk (or any milk)
- 3/4 tbsp (15g) maple syrup
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup (60g) rolled oats
- 1/2 banana, sliced
- 1 crushed nilla wafer or graham cracker (or 1 tbsp (8g) crushed biscuit)
Instructions
- In a small jar or container, that's at least 250mL, add your yogurt, milk, maple syrup, and vanilla. Stir until combined.
- Add in the oats and stir until well combined. Add in the banana and again stir until well combined.
- Seal the container or jar and store in the fridge for at least 6 hours. Top with crushed biscuit and enjoy!
