Vegan Tiramisu Overnight Oats with Instant Coffee

Name: Vegan Tiramisu Overnight Oats with Instant Coffee
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Ingredients: ⅓ cup rolled oats; 3 tablespoons hemp hearts (for protein, optional but recommended!); 1 tablespoon cocoa powder; 1 teaspoon instant coffee (I used Nescafe Bold Decaf); ½ cup hemp milk (or your fave plant-based milk); 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract; 1 teaspoon pure maple syrup (or cane sugar, to taste); ¼ cup vanilla vegan yogurt; cocoa powder (for sprinkling, optional)

By Desiree Nielsen, RD

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The yummiest tiramisu overnight oats you’ll ever make! Made with instant coffee for a richer flavour, and topped with creamy vegan vanilla yogurt and cocoa powder. Blood sugar friendly and protein-rich, these are a perfect make-ahead vegan breakfast. BONUS: this recipe is also low FODMAP!

cocoa and yogurt on metal spoon resting on a jar — These tiramisu overnight oats have a rich coffee flavour, just like the classic Italian dessert.

Tiramisu is my absolute favourite dessert: I am serious about it in all its creamy, coffee goodness so if I am making a tiramisu overnight oats, it better taste like the real thing!

As a dietitian, I love overnight oats because it’s a quick, nourishing, make-ahead vegan breakfast that keeps you feeling energized for hours. Way too often, people are either too busy to make or eat breakfast when they wake up, so overnight oats are a great grab-and-go breakfast so as soon as you get a minute, you can eat!

Honestly, it happens to me too. Before I had kids, I could not imagine not eating breakfast right away but now, I often don’t sit down to eat until the kids are off to school – so having these tiramisu overnight oats in the fridge means I can eat and get on with my day.

But real talk: if you want to keep it interesting, you’ve got to switch up the flavours once in a while! Sometimes I crave my cinnamon-scented carrot cake overnight oats. Other times, I want the muesli-like texture of my high protein overnight oats.

I’m big on creating vegan breakfast ideas that ANYONE can fall in love with…and because it sucks to feel hungry like an hour after breakfast, I crafted this recipe to help keep you full and satisfied: I use a moderate portion of soluble-fibre rich oats for slow burn energy, plenty of hemp hearts and soy milk for 18g protein (!) and healthy omega 3 fats.

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How to make these nourishing tiramisu overnight oats

This recipe is ridiculously easy: you just need 5 minutes to stir together these creamy, flavourful vegan overnight oats. Grab just 8 ingredients – most of which you already have in your pantry, like vanilla! The full detailed recipe is in the recipe card below…but here are a few tips and tricks from my recipe testing to help you out!

rolled oats, hemp hearts, and cocoa in glass jars — Most of these ingredients are pantry staples like vanilla and cocoa…but for the richest coffee flavour, I highly recommend using instant coffee! I used Nescafe Bold Decaf

Let’s talk plant-based milks: Use your favourite unsweetened plant-based milk here; but if you are looking to boost the protein, I recommend using either soy milk, high protein pea milk or my 3 minute homemade hemp seed milk!
Hemp hearts: one of my go-to dietitian hacks for more protein! Adding 3 tablespoons of hemp hearts packs 10 grams of plant-based protein, so you can get a boost of protein without protein powder.
Creamy vegan vanilla yogurt: The tang of yogurt makes these oats taste like you used mascarpone cheese SO much! I used Yoggu vanilla which I love because it is super creamy and has very little sugar. If you have a yummy vanilla Greek-style yogurt, that will up the protein even more. Be sure to taste your yogurt before you use it. If you don’t love it, you can doctor it up with a bit of extra vanilla extract or maybe coconut cream.

hand stirring cocoa and oats in glass jar — I recommend mixing the dry ingredients first, as the cocoa blends easier that way but you can totally just dump the ingredients together if you prefer.

hand pouring milk into jar of cocoa and oats — I recommend mixing the dry ingredients first, as the cocoa blends easier that way but you can totally just dump the ingredients together if you prefer.

FAQ: What are the best kind of oats to use for overnight oats?

In my opinion, the best oats for an overnight oats recipe are traditional rolled oats. They retain more texture in the soaking process than quick oats…although quick oats will absolutely work too. I recommend if you have quick oats on hand, you use a heaping measurement. So for this recipe, use a heaping ⅓ cup instead of a level ⅓ cup.

Steel cut oats take a really long time to soak; you can totally make steel cut overnight oats but you want to make them at least 24 hours in advance or better yet, do a hot soak.

hand pouring overnight oats into glass jar — Pour the oats into jars (if you didn’t stir in the jar!) and let chill for at least 8 hours or overnight.

spoon adding yogurt to a glass jar — Pour the oats into jars (if you didn’t stir in the jar!) and let chill for at least 8 hours or overnight.

Don’t have instant coffee? Use homemade espresso. Just pour a shot of espresso into a ½ cup measure, then top off with your plant-based milk to keep the proportions the same.

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