Easy Cocoa Banana Overnight Oats
- Updated on Mar 04, 2025
This super-speedy and oh-so-tasty oatmeal breakfast is very easy to make and full of protein! It’ll keep you feeling nice and full for hours.
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It’s a beautiful mix of bananas, cacao powder and peanut butter. All three ingredients are known for their ‘affinity’ to each other. You’ll taste what I mean!
How to make cocoa banana overnight oats
Thankfully, they are mega-easy to make!
Step 1: mashup the banana and mix it with the cocoa powder
Step 2: add a layer of oats and chia seeds, then pour on milk (no need to mix)
Step 3: add a layer of the banana mix
Step 4: add a dollop of peanut butter
Step 5: repeat!
If you love the chocolate banana combo, try our choc and banana popsicle too!
This version is naturally vegetarian, and can be made vegan by using soy, almond oat or another vegan milk. There’s no yoghurt in this version.
I’ve found that creamy peanut butter works the best, as it’s a very smooth recipe overall, BUT if you’ve only got crunchy then it absolutely works (as I can attest to, many times over!). My kids normally nab the smooth PB first 😂.
As a variation, you can skip the peanut butter, but I think it goes really nicely with the chocolate and adds a solid chunk of extra protein, too.
Naturally, no cooking is needed, just a couple of hours in the fridge. Overnight is best, and I’ve tried all kinds of oats in it from instant to steel cut, and they’re all delicious 🤗
Ingredients
- 1 banana
- 2 tsp cacao powder
- ½ cup rolled oats
- 1 tsp chia seeds
- 1 cup milk of choice (we use soy milk)
- 2 tsp peanut butter
Instructions
- Mash the banana, the mix it with the cacao powder.1 banana, 2 tsp cacao powder
- To make it look nice first layer half of the oats, milk and chia seeds then add a layer of the banana mix. Repeat. Finish off the oatmeal with a dollop of peanut butter.½ cup rolled oats, 1 cup milk of choice, 2 tsp peanut butter, 1 tsp chia seeds
- Leave in the fridge overnight if possible, or at least 4 hours. When it comes to eating, give it all a good stir. Enjoy!
NOTES
Nutrition
It is really is great when you find foods that just go so well together. These blueberry cheesecake overnight oats are another great example, as are these protein powder oats.
And you can find all of our favourites on one handy page right here.
And finally, if you’re more of a video person then Hauke made an easy-to-follow video tutorial right this way!
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