Apple Cinnamon Overnight Oats
Apple cinnamon overnight oats are a cozy, fall-inspired flavor of my über popular healthy overnight oats! These hearty, healthy, and oh-so-delicious oats taste a lot like apple pie but are packed with protein, fiber, and gut-healthy probiotics.
🔍 Recipe At-A-Glance: Apple Cinnamon Overnight Oats
- ⏰ Prep Time: 5 minutes
- 🕰️ Chill Time: 4+ hours
- 🍎 Flavor Profile: Sweet, creamy, hearty, packed with apple pie flavor
- 💪 What Makes It Healthy: 20g protein and 14g of fiber per serving
- 🥄 Good For: Meal prep breakfasts, busy weekday mornings, kid breakfasts
- ↪️ Make Ahead: Designed for meal prep!
- 🧡 Difficulty: If you can stir, you can make this!
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🧡 Why You'll Love This Recipe
When it comes to healthy overnight oats recipes, I'm your girl. And this apple cinnamon version pairs up beautifully with my pumpkin overnight oats for a wonderful, easy fall breakfast rotation.
Here's why you'll love this recipe:
- Apple Pie For Breakfast: Yup, everything you love about apple pie in a healthy, easy breakfast.
- Make Ahead: 5 minutes on the weekend and you can have breakfasts all week.
- Protein & Fiber For Dayssss: A jar of these oats has 20g of protein and 14g of fiber!
- Easy Breezy to Make: Can you stir? Congratulations! You can make overnight oats.
- A recipe you can trust: My overnight oats recipes have literal thousands of 5-star reviews-people actually stop me on the street to ask about them! You can trust this recipe.
🍎 The Ingredients You Need
- Oats: rolled oats/old-fashioned oats are what you want, not quick cooking/instant or steel-cut oats (but you can use those in my slow cooker steel cut oats recipe or pumpkin chili).
- Greek Yogurt: any plain Greek yogurt will do. I usually used my strained homemade yogurt.
- Chia seeds or flax meal: these add protein and fiber to the oats as well as help them thicken up
- Apple: grab a small apple of any variety for this. Or if you have dried apple slices, you can rehydrate them in some boiling water and use those.
- Honey or maple syrup: or leave out the sweetener all together if you want to cut back on sugar
Make sure to check the recipe card below for the full ingredients list, along with quantities and my expert tips and tricks.
🔁 Variations & Substitutions
- Make it gluten-free: These oats are naturally gluten-free as long as you choose certified gluten-free oats.
- Make it vegan: Use maple syrup, plant-based milk (almond milk is my fave) and vegan Greek yogurt
- Increase the protein: Add a scoop of your favorite vanilla or unflavored protein powder!
- Make it sugar-free: Add ½ mashed ripe banana instead of maple syrup or honey. Or use stevia or monk fruit sweetener.
🥣 How to Make Apple Cinnamon Overnight Oats
Step 1: Place apple pieces in a microwave safe bowl and microwave until tender.
Step 2: Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl.
Step 3: Stir well to combine.
Step 4: Spoon into a jar or other food storage container. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
Step 5: Serve cold, topped with additional cinnamon and apples, if desired. You can even top them with some canned apple pie filling for an extra decadent touch.
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🙋🏻♀️ Apple Cinnamon Overnight Oats FAQs
The way I do it, they are! My healthy overnight oats recipes have a great balance of carbs, fat, and protein. They are packed with fiber and healthy probiotics that make them great for your gut. They keep you full for hours, have built-in portion control, plus they taste great!
Most people eat them cold. If you're not into cold oatmeal, warm it in the microwave for 30-60 seconds, stirring frequently, or in a small saucepan on the stove until heated to your liking.
👩🏻🍳 My Expert Tips & Tricks
- Stock up for the week: doubling or tripling this recipe takes no extra time but gives you lots of breakfasts-perfect for big families or busy weeks!
- Try other mix-ins: I tested these oats with lots of mix-ins, and my favorite is this simple version with just tender apples and cinnamon. But if you want to experiment, go ahead! Plump raisins, chopped pecans, and walnuts would all be great additions.
- Customize: add in protein powder, collagen powder, fiber supplements, oh my! You are in control.
- Wait at least 4 hours: yes these are called "overnight" oats, but you can get away with eating them after at least 4 hours in the fridge
- Sweeten to taste: some people like oats sweeter than others, so start with a small amount of maple syrup or honey, taste your oats, then add more if you like.
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📖 Recipe
Apple Cinnamon Overnight Oats
Ingredients
- 1 small apple cored and diced (and peeled, if desired)
- ⅓ cup plain Greek yogurt
- ½ cup heaping rolled oats
- ⅔ cup unsweetened non-dairy or dairy milk
- 1 tablespoon chia seeds OR ground flax meal
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Pinch of salt
- 0-2 tablespoons honey OR maple syrup, to taste
Instructions
- Place the diced apple in a small, microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on high for 90 seconds to 2 minutes, or until the apple pieces are fork-tender.
- Whisk together all remaining ingredients in a medium-sized mixing bowl with the cooked apples. Spoon into a jar with a tight-fitting lid.
- Close and refrigerate for at least 4 hours, but preferably overnight before eating.
Notes
- I like using unsweetened almond milk for our oats, but feel free to use whatever milk you'd like-soy, oat, dairy, coconut-it'll all work!
- Leaving the peel on the apple is all about personal preference, so you do you! Some folks like the chewy texture and added nutrition, some folks prefer their apples peeled.
- Any apple will work for this recipe.
I’m wondering how to heat up in the morning. I’ve only ever used packaged oatmeal so this is all new to me.
Hi Shae! We love the convenience of eating these cold straight out of the fridge (if you haven't tried that yet, we definitely recommend giving it a shot! The creamy texture and ease in the morning are the best parts!), but if you'd like to warm them up, you absolutely can. Just heat them in the microwave for 30-60 seconds, stirring frequently, or in a small saucepan on the stove until heated to your liking!