Today, I’ve got another delicious dessert for breakfast! Pumpkin pie overnight oats are the ultimate Fall breakfast, satisfying any dessert cravings while still being good for you and containing over ?? Protein. Full of pumpkin, oats and warm spices, can’t go wrong right?!

Pumpkin pie is honestly one of my least favourite pies, although I will absolutely still eat it. However, I love making anything with pumpkin, and warm spices are my all time favourite! These pumpkin oats are the perfect breakfast on the go and will make any work day better.

These pumpkin pie overnight oats combine all the flavours of pumpkin pie with lots of cinnamon and spice. The addition of Greek yogurt helps give the oats a nice creamy texture making it similar to a pumpkin pie custard filling.

For a festive family breakfast, you can double or triple the recipe and have a delicious breakfast with your family. My son is pretty picky, so he hasn’t tried these but my daughter is obsessed with any overnight oats. If I sit down with a jar, I’m guaranteed to only get about 1/3 of the jar :P.

Front view of pumpkin pie oatmeal topped with greek yogurt and dusted with cinnamon. Pumpkins and leaves in the background.

If you’d like some different dessert for breakfast style overnight oats, check out my coconut cream pie overnight oats or my black forest overnight oats. Or if you’d like something different for brekfast that still has pumpkin, try my pumpkin flax muffins or my pumpkin chocolate chip bread.

Toppings

You can top these pumpkin oats with whatever you like but my preference is some crushed graham cracker crumbs or a dollop of vanilla Greek yogurt for a little additional sweetness. You can also do plain Greek yogurt or chopped pecans as well.

Front view of pumpkin pie overnight oats topped with Greek yogurt and dusted with cinnamon. Pumpkins and leaves in the background.

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.

Front view of pumpkin pie overnight oats. Pumpkins and leaves in the background.

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/.

Overhead diagonal view of pumpkin pie overnight oats topped with greek yogurt and dusted with cinnamon. Pumpkins and leaves in the background.

Gluten Free Pumpkin Pie Overnight Oats

Making this recipe gluten free is super simple, all you need to do is ensure your oats are certified gluten free. That’s it!

As a side note, if making anything gluten free for someone with an allergy, ensure you thoroughly wash any equipment, jars or utensils. Any contact with flour may trigger an allergy. I like to say any baking I do in my own home is gluten friendly as I am using flour often and cannot guarantee there’s been no cross contamination.

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 recommend using canned pumpkin puree as fresh usually has a different consistency and moisture content.
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.

Overhead diagonal view of pumpkin pie overnight oats topped with Greek yogurt and dusted with cinnamon. Pumpkins in the background.

More Breakfast Recipes

Chocolate Chip Walnut Banana Bread

Strawberry Cheesecake Overnight Oats

Cream Cheese Filled Red Velvet Muffins

My song today is by a collection of amazing artists that were hired to create music for basically long lost lyrics found in Bob Dylan’s basement. Here’s Kansas City by The New Basement Tapes. Happy Baking!! **Disclaimer: Liv’s Little Muffins owns no rights to this song.

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