A simple and easy breakfast recipe, this Chocolate Almond Butter Overnight Oats will become a new morning favorite. Just throw all the ingredients into a jar and let it sit overnight for a healthy and fun breakfast in the AM!
Picking a favorite nut butter is like being forced to choose a favorite child. In which case, I’d choose almond butter.
…my poor future children. OY.
With everyone getting their panties in a bunch over the glory that is peanut butter, I’m over there in the corner hoarding my insanely expensive jar of almond butter. What can I say? I have expensive taste.
But for real, almond butter is the true joy of my life and is perhaps what I miss most when I’m travelling.
Oh wait, I totally travel with my almond butter.
When it comes to breakfast, I can be so so boring. I go in food ruts where I have the same thing for breakfast every single day for months and then one day wake up and decide that I’m sick of it. I vacillate between smoothie bowls and oats and occasionally pancakes, but no matter what phase I’m in, there will always be almond butter.
And as I’ve discovered, almond butter is to chocolate as peanut butter is to jelly. If that doesn’t make almond butter better than peanut butter, I don’t know what will. So basically I will be feeding future children almond butter and chocolate sandwiches…which hopefully will make up for the fact that I totally just picked favorites.
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This Chocolate Almond Butter Overnight Oats recipe is actually an old favorite. I probably ate this every single day for a year a few years back. Likely BBE (before the blogging era), which would explain why it never made an appearance on the blog. But lately I’ve been getting sentimental and including some throwback recipes to old flavor faves.
In the process I’ve also been reunited with my love for this recipe. So onto an old/new breakfast phase! Not surprisingly, it includes almond butter!
PrintChocolate Almond Butter Overnight Oatmeal
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: overnight
- Yield: 2 servings 1x
Ingredients
- 1 cup rolled oats (gluten-free oats, if necessary)*
- 1 ripe banana, mashed
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- 2 cups unsweetened vanilla almond milk (or coconut milk)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp almond butter
- 2 tbsp chopped dark chocolate
*not quick cooking oats – use old-fashioned rolled oats!
Instructions
- In a large mason jar or airtight container add rolled oats, mashed banana and chia seeds.
- Add in almond milk and vanilla extract. Stir to combine.
- Top with lid and give it a good shake.
- Place in the refrigerator overnight or for at least 8 hours.
- In the morning add more almond milk (if desired) and heat up in microwave or on stove-top.
- Top with almond butter and dark chocolate.
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34 Comments
Jimena Lerma
April 27, 2016 at 11:17 pmThis looks so appetizing, and your photos are beautiful! It made me want to eat oatmeal again! I used to follow the eat-clean diet for a while, and it recommended just plain oats boiled in water, so after that I didn’t eat oats for a while :/
Thank you 🙂
Davida Kugelmass
April 29, 2016 at 10:44 amWell that doesn’t sound very appetizing 😉 Oats definitely need some fun added to them! Hope you enjoy!
Ashley @ Fit Mitten Kitchen
April 27, 2016 at 2:55 pmIs it weird I love you even more for confessing to almond butter > peanut butter *gasp* But if I had to choose, cashew butter has my heart. Ugh I’m craving all of the good food right now. My parents and in-laws don’t eat like I do, or keep the same kind of food in the house. Let’s just say I CANNOT WAIT until we are able to get into our new place.
Davida Kugelmass
April 27, 2016 at 3:54 pmI’m glad this wasn’t a deal-breaker in our relationship! Just come live here 🙂 Plenty of space in our 700 square foot apartment with a dog!
Marsha
April 27, 2016 at 6:49 amNut butters….give me any and all of them! haha! Add in chocolate, and I’m sold! I love breakfast for breakfast, lunch or dinner!
Davida Kugelmass
April 27, 2016 at 9:20 ambreakfast, brunch, brinner! The way to my heart!
Megan
April 26, 2016 at 7:06 pmI love nut butter and chocolate together so so so much! I think if I had to choose one it would be peanut butter … my guess is this love dates back to days of PB&J packed in school lunches.
Davida Kugelmass
April 27, 2016 at 9:23 amI think most people would side with you 😉
Kelly @ Eat the Gains
April 26, 2016 at 1:39 pmThe real question is, how do you get your almond butter to look like that?!? When I try to make mine look pretty it just globs up haha.
Cassie
April 25, 2016 at 12:12 pmI am seriously SO guilty of eating almond butter and dark chocolate every single day. Once I discovered the birth of almond butter I immediately became HOOKED. I still love peanut butter but there’s something so special about almond butter! It’s absolutely amazing. This oatmeal is a great way to put these two lovebirds together, haha! And by the way, I have NO shame in eating almond butter and dark chocolate every day 😉
Marina @ A Dancer's Live-It
April 25, 2016 at 7:46 amI honestly cannot decide between peanut or almond butter. I love all nut butters! I try not to discriminate 😉 Haha thank you for sharing this recipe Davida! <3
Davida Kugelmass
April 25, 2016 at 8:55 amYou’re right! Best not to discriminate. I truly do love both…just AB a bit more 😉
Karen @ Seasonal Cravings
April 25, 2016 at 6:57 amThis looks like a healthy dessert for breakfast. I love it! I totally go through breakfast phases of oatmeal bowls, protein shakes and straight up eggs.
Davida Kugelmass
April 25, 2016 at 8:54 amSo many phases! It stays around for a while if it tastes like dessert for breakfast 😉
GiselleR @ Diary of an ExSloth
April 24, 2016 at 11:10 pmAlways peanut butter. I really tried hard to like almond butter and I’ll eat it these days but peanut butter has all my love. That being said, I’d pair it with chocolate over jam/jelly any day.
p.s. I have a totally full jar of AB in the fridge that I bought this week during an ‘I need to like almond butter phase’. Thanks for giving me something to finally do with it lol
Davida Kugelmass
April 25, 2016 at 8:55 amLOL for a second there I thought you might gift me the almond butter. My birthday is in August FYI 😉
GiselleR @ Diary of an ExSloth
April 25, 2016 at 10:47 amhaha If I’m in Toronot, I’ll stop by with a jar 😀
Davida Kugelmass
April 25, 2016 at 10:52 amYou’re welcome anytime!
Helen
April 24, 2016 at 2:06 pmWhat are the calories in this please?
Davida Kugelmass
April 24, 2016 at 4:05 pmHi Helen. Thanks for reaching out! I don’t count calories and you can read more of my reasoning behind this decision here: https://www.thehealthymaven.com/about-me
Hope you enjoy the recipe!
Leah M @ love me, feed me
April 24, 2016 at 10:11 amPeanut butter is one of my least favourite nut butters, I’m all about that cashew butter! <3 Love this simple recipe and it's perfect way to get myself out of my own breakfast rut!!
Also that has to be the prettiest and fanciest almond butter design ever. Pretty much art,
Davida Kugelmass
April 24, 2016 at 4:29 pmawwwww you’re too sweet! Weirdly I’m not a huge cashew butter person. I think I need to give it another shot!
Stella @ Stellicious Life
April 24, 2016 at 5:19 amI LOVE almond butter! I once tried to make my own at home, but it took forever and it was quite dry (maybe because I used roasted almonds for the process…). Since I bought a huge jar of organic, natural almond butter I put it in everything: my morning oats, protein bars, and even when I’m in need of dessert I eat a spoonful (ow two 😉 ). I love peanut butter too, but that is saltier and different than almond butter. What I haven’t tried yet is sunflowerseed butter. Since I keep hearing so many good things about it I’ll try it sooner or later (when my jar of almond butter gets empty 😉
Have a lovely Sunday Davida!
Davida Kugelmass
April 24, 2016 at 5:32 pmoooooh sunbutter is really good too! Almond butter will always win for me though. It definitely takes the longest to process if you are making it yourself, but it is so so worth it.