Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Overnight Oats

There have been a lot of delicious looking cookie dough-flavoured Overnight Oats over the last little while (like this one or this one) that were just too tempting to not try. I don't eat oats myself, but you know you're a foodie when you still want to try a recipe for something you don't necessarily partake in. Conveniently, Andrew loves them!

Looking through some existing recipes, I was wondering how it was possible that so few ingredients would turn into something cookie dough tasting, but they were pretty on the ball! I used them as an inspiration and here's what I came up with. Who says you can't have cookies for breakfast?

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Overnight Oats

Yields: 1 man-sized portion

For oats:

3/4 C rolled oats

2 tablespoons of chia

pinch of salt

1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon of almond extract (optional)

1/2 tablespoon of raw honey/maple syrup (or other liquid sweetener)

1 C non-dairy milk (almond, soy, it's your pick!) + 1/4 C in the morning (optional)

1. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl.

2. Cover and leave overnight. It might look like there's a lot of liquid,

but the chia seeds will soak it right up by morning.

3. In the morning, if it's too clumpy, add another 1/4 C of your "milk."

4. Top with "chocolate chip cookie dough," bananas, walnuts, and more!

For "cookie dough":

1/4 C nuts, ground into flour (I used Brazil nuts)

1/4 C oats, ground into flour (or another flour of choice)

dash of salt

dash of vanilla extract

1 teaspoon of coconut butter

maple syrup (see directions)

chocolate chips, to taste

1. Mix the first three dry ingredients in a bowl.

2. Stir in the next two wet ingredients, and add as much maple syrup 

as needed to form a cookie dough (about a tablespoon or so).

3. Stir in chocolate chips and sprinkle over your Oats!

Enjoy :)