These funfetti protein overnight oats taste like funfetti cake but are secretly healthy and packed with protein! They’re an easy, make-ahead breakfast for busy mornings with only 6 ingredients!
Colorful and bright and fun! WHEEEE!
Meet my current breakfast obsession, in the sense that I sometimes even eat it for dinner because SPRINKLES:
I can still taste this morning’s wholesome overnight oats all swirled up with vanilla-scented almond milk, crunchy sprinkles and Greek yogurt WITH protein powder FROSTING (and some crumbled up funfetti protein cookies because WHY NOT.)
Frosting, guys. You know, that light, whippy, sugary goodness on cakes, that is SOLE the reason why you’re cake-eating purpose in life is to MAKE SURE that you get the CORNER PIECE?
Maybe that’s just me though. I’ve got a thangggg for frosting and it just won’t QUIT.
Okay. Hittin’ pause so you can go make a bowl of it, grab your spoon, and then come back to finish.
Aaaaand, we’re back.
Funfetti ANYTHING is not new around this little space of the interwebz. It’s my not-so-secret-at-all obsession, and I kinda try to eat it any way possible always. I blame my momma who always made me Funfetti cupcakes to celebrate every birthday. Little did she know she was creating a sprinkle-eating, frosting-licking Funfetti MONSTER.
The cake for breakfast game? STRONG.
How-EV-er, those things take time. Which I like to pretend I don’t have because I live a very important and busy food-blogger person life. This means that my morning-moments are precious and need to be used WISELY. In my books, it’s better to spend NO time making breakfast, so that my busy self can be hard to work before the sun even RISES.
I can’t confirm nor deny that it’s just ‘cause I wanna sleep in longer though.
Picture yourself snuggled up in your jammies, juuuust about ready to call it a day, and then spending ONLY 3ish MINUTES stirring each fleck of oatmeal into creamy almond milk, until it’s JUST PERFECTLY moistened, and then throwing in a few tablespoons (handfuls obvi) of sprinkles. Walk to your refrigerator, put it in and wave good bye….until you’re reunited again in the morning.
NOW, picture the sweet, gluten free cake-filled dreams that your cozy, already-prepared for morning munchin’ self will have.
I also shared the Funfetti protein overnight oats recipe on Food Fanatic, so be sure to check it out there as well!
Ingredients
- 1 cup old fashioned rolled oats
- 2 tablespoons sprinkles
- 1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk or milk of choice, plus additional for the frosting
- 2 teaspoons butter extract
- 1/2 cup nonfat vanilla greek yogurt
- 1/4 cup vanilla protein powder
Instructions
- In a medium bowl stir together the oatmeal and sprinkles. Add in 1 cup of the almond milk and the butter extract and stir well. Place 1/4 cup each of the oat mixture in the bottom of two glasses, jars, or small bowls. Then, gently spread 1/4 cup each of the Greek yogurt onto of the oats. Divide the remaining oat mixture between the 2 glasses, on top of the yogurt layer. Let sit overnight. In the morning, stir together the protein power with just enough almond milk to turn it into a thick, frosting-like consistency. My protein needed about 5 teaspoons of milk. Start small and add as needed. Divide the frosting on the top of each cup and DEVOUR.
Nutrition Info:
Recipes written and produced on Food Faith Fitness are for informational purposes only.
FOR THIS RECIPE, I RECOMMEND:
WEIGHT WATCHERS POINTS PER SERVING: SMARTPOINTS: 9 POINTS+: 8 OLD POINTS: 7
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Want more oats?
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Kristi says
I was just going to send you a recipe request for this. Guess you got my brain waves!
I have been all over the web looking for a good birthday cake overnight oats and turned up nothing that looked very exiting. This however has me drooling! I mean, you actually made it legal to have frosting for breakfast!
As soon as I get my hands on some butter extract, I’m turning it into this yumminess!
You rock girl!!!!
Taylor Kiser says
Haha I KNEW i felt some brain waves coming from your direction!
Who doesn’t want frosting for life right 😉 I hope you love this Kristi and thanks!
P.s I’ve never had trouble finding the extract so I hope the same is for you! xox
Gerry @ foodness gracious says
My kids were just complaining this a.m about having the same boring oatmeal all the time…this should make them happy!!
Taylor Kiser says
I think they’d love this 😉 Thanks Gerry!
Brandon @ Kitchen Konfidence says
So pretty! And who wouldn’t love waking up to this :)?
Taylor Kiser says
Thank you so much Brandon!
Sarah @ Snixy Kitchen says
Sprinkles!!! I feel like this is a way to cheer up anyone’s morning:)
Taylor Kiser says
Exactly 😉 Sprinkles mean a good day! Thanks Sarah!
Brenda @ a farmgirl's dabbles says
Such a fun way with breakfast!!
Taylor Kiser says
Thanks Brenda!
Megan {Country Cleaver} says
How fun are THESE!!!! I can definitely get behind these happy oats!
Taylor Kiser says
Thanks Megan!
Leslie says
These look like so much fun! My kids would love to have something like this. One question: I try not to use things like protein powder. Is there any alternative that would also help keep the protein count up?
Taylor Kiser says
Unfortunately, there really isn’t. The protein powder is what thickens the icing so I really can’t tell you what else to use, as the recipe was not developed that way. I’m sorry!
Lindsay says
Should I not have used whey protein? The oats were great, but the frosting did not taste good at all, super strong off-putting protein flavor. I’m not sure why else this would have happened. This is the first time I’ve ever had a problem with any of your overnight oats recipes. I make them religiously and want to add this one to the mix, but don’t know how to fix the frosting issue. Help, please!
Taylor Kiser says
I’m sorry you had this problem Lindsay! I honestly think it really is going to depend on what protein powder you use! I’ve had some notsogood protein powders in my life, and I can imagine they might not be the yummiest here. It’s hard to write a recipe that suits ALL powders, as they all taste SO different! Can you try just adding LESS powder or just totally omit it and top with just vanilla Greek yogurt?
Lindsay says
Thanks for the quick response! I really like the idea of the frosting and want to try again with a different powder. Do you have one you recommend?
Taylor Kiser says
My absolutely favorite protein is this: http://amzn.to/1RlEVKD and this one is a close second for vanilla: http://amzn.to/1T6FZVi
The first link has amazing flavors! I am OBSESSED with their birthday cake! I hope that helps!!
party themes and decorations supplies says
Nice
Taylor Kiser says
Thanks!
Holly says
Came across your blog a few weeks ago at work… one of my goals starting NOW is to try to eat a healthy breakfast I can prepare ahead of time because of our long commute times and I LOVE all your overnight oats flavors 🙂
Taylor Kiser says
I am SO excited to have you here Holly! Overnight oats are basically my life, so I hope you find some that you love – breakfast is SO key! 🙂