Strawberry Cheesecake Overnight Oats

Reasons you’ll love this recipe.

• Let’s start with delicious and healthy! Yep, you don’t need to feel guilty enjoying a breakfast that tastes like dessert! You can also sneak in all kinds of superfoods! 
• Uses basic pantry ingredients. If you keep a stocked healthy pantry and refrigerator, then you most likely have everything to make a jar right now.
• Can be made quickly. It takes less than 5 minutes to whip up a jar for the next day! You could have breakfast made for the entire week in less than 10 minutes.
• Meal prep superstar. These can be whipped together the night before or made on Sunday for the week. 

Ingredients

• Rolled oats are the best oats to use for overnight oats recipes. Instant or quick oats will turn into mush, and steel-cut oats won’t thoroughly cook in this recipe. 
• Chia seeds are the superfood I add to my overnight oats recipes. They are filled with omega fatty acids, fiber, protein, and all kinds of nutrients, plus add to the creamy pudding-like texture or overnight oats. You can stir in your favorite superfood.
• Unsweetened coconut milk is the non-dairy milk I most often use because that’s what I always have on hand, but you can also use almond milk or any other type of non-dairy milk.
• Vanilla Greek yogurt. So how does one make overnight oats taste like cheesecake? With a bit of greek yogurt! Greek yogurt gives overnight oats that amazing tang and creaminess that makes you think you’re eating a dessert when in reality, it’s breakfast. 
• Strawberries. You can use frozen or fresh strawberries. My only suggestion would be to chop up the strawberries, so they are easy to mix with the oats. Another thing that I like to do with fresh strawberries is mashing them up before mixing them in with the other ingredients, and this creates a nice jam-like consistency with the strawberries.
• Pure maple syrup adds a little extra sweetness to the overnight oats to balance out the tang of the yogurt. You can also use honey or your favorite sweetener.

Supplies

Essentially, you could use any container for overnight oats recipes, but my preferred container, which I use most often, is a 16oz mason jar container. This size is perfect for the amount of oats being served, plus all the extra ingredients depending on the recipe. Don’t forget to grab a pack of the plastic mason jar lids.

I like using the mason jars for portion control as well. Each has one serving, so when I’m trying to keep track of calories and portions for breakfast, this is a perfect way to do that.

How to Make Strawberry Cheesecake Overnight Oats

• The first thing you’re going to do is pour half a cup of rolled oats into the bottom of a 16-ounce mason jar container, followed by the chia seeds.
• Next, you’re going to add vanilla Greek yogurt, vanilla extract, and unsweetened coconut milk.
• You’ll mix all of those ingredients until the liquid covers all the rolled oats.
• Lastly, you’re going to place the strawberries on top of the rolled oat
• Put the lid on and then store it in the fridge overnight for at least 5 hours.
• In the morning, pour the overnight oats and strawberries mixture into a bowl. Add 1-2 teaspoons of pure maple syrup and give it a couple of stirs. If it still seems a little on the thick side, add about a tablespoon of liquid until you get the consistency you want. You can also eat the oatmeal right from the jar.
• Add a couple more strawberries, and then enjoy!

Storage tips

You can make jars of Strawberry cheesecake overnight oats up to 3 days ahead of time. Keep in mind the longer the oats sit in the refrigerator, the thicker they will become, so you’ll need to add extra liquid before eating them.

Cooking Tips

• If you don’t have strawberries, you can easily use any berry in this recipe. I’ve made this with frozen mixed berries, blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries.
• You can also leave the fruit out altogether and make it more of a cheesecake-like overnight oats recipe without any of the berries. You can also add chocolate chips or cacao nibs to make a chocolate cheesecake overnight oats recipe.
• If you need more sweetness, you can add half of a mashed banana.
• You can sprinkle about a tablespoon of graham crackers over the overnight oats the next day to give it that graham cracker crust flavor.
• You can make this vegan by using dairy-free milk and dairy-free yogurt! Check out this vegan overnight oats guide for more tips.
• To reduce the sugar you can use plain Greek yogurt.
• For extra protein stir in some vanilla protein powder or plain protein powder. 
• If you have a gluten-sensitivity then make sure to purchase gluten-free certified rolled oats and check the label for hidden gluten in the other ingredients.
• Overnight oat recipes are meant to be eaten cold, but if you want to warm it up, you can Let it sit on the counter for 5-10 minutes to take off the chill, Pour into a bowl and warm up in the microwave, or Pour into a saucepan and warm up on the stove.

If you loved this strawberry cheesecake overnight oats, you have to try some of these different recipes!

• Blueberry Banana Overnight Oats
• Banana Overnight Oats
• Peanut Butter Overnight Oats
• Apple Cinnamon Overnight Oats
• Strawberry Overnight Oats

Other healthy oatmeal recipes.