These chocolate chip baked oatmeal breakfast squares are like eating a giant chocolate chip oatmeal cookie for breakfast, straight from the oven!
❤ Just 7 ingredients
❤ You can make them the night before
❤ Leftovers freeze really well
❤ Great for a healthy meal or snack on the go
❤ A wholesome & filling breakfast
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Don’t forget the chocolate chips
My favorite chocolate chips, that I use almost exclusively in my own recipes, are Enjoy Life Mini Chocolate Chips.
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ve probably noticed I love to add mini chocolate chips to recipes, both for taste and presentation.
Just look at this gorgeous dark chocolate Brownie Baked Oatmeal!
It’s much easier to spread mini chips out evenly in baked goods so you get chocolate in every single bite, whereas with larger chocolate chips you might get one bite with chocolate and then another with no chocolate at all.
People often write in to ask me how I can eat chocolate chips as a vegan.
The Enjoy Life chips I recommended above actually are vegan, non-GMO, and free from 14 common allergens, including gluten, soy, eggs, dairy, and nuts. (They also come in Semi-Sweet Mega Chunks and Dark Chocolate Morsels.) You can find the brand in many regular grocery stores or online.
Breakfast on the go
Of the thousands of recipes I’ve posted here on the blog, my mom will tell you that these breakfast squares are her all-time favorite.
She calls them “boatmeal” (for baked oatmeal) and will often text me on the weekend that she’s made another batch to take into work every morning during the week.
Because leftovers freeze well, you can easily plan ahead and freeze whatever you aren’t going to eat within 4-5 days, to keep an instant healthy breakfast on hand for rushed mornings or any time you don’t feel like cooking.
Step One: Combine all ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
Step Two: Spread into a parchment-lined 9×13 pan.
Step Three: Bake at 350 F, then slice into bars or squares, and breakfast is ready for the whole week!
Above – watch the video how to make chocolate chip breakfast squares
Chocolate Chip Breakfast Squares To-Go
Ingredients
- 4 cups rolled oats
- 2 2/3 cup applesauce or mashed banana
- 3/4 cup water
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup or more mini chocolate chips – I love Enjoy Life Mini Chips
- 1/4 cup oil, nut butter, or additional water
- pinch stevia or 1/2 cup pure maple syrup, honey, or agave
- only if using stevia, 1/2 cup additional water
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Line a 9×13 pan with parchment. In a large bowl, stir all ingredients until well-mixed. Smooth into the pan. Sprinkle additional chocolate chips on top if desired. Bake on the center rack 28 minutes, then do not open the oven door but turn off the heat and let sit in the closed oven an additional 20 minutes. Slice into bars or squares. Leftovers can be refrigerated 3-4 days, or freeze the bars to have on hand any time you need an instant healthy breakfast you can take on the go!View Nutrition Facts
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Notes
**Giant Chocolate Giveaway**
I’ve teamed up with Enjoy Life Foods to offer a very lucky reader an entire year’s supply of their vegan baking chocolate.
To Enter: Just leave a comment on this post sharing about how you’d use the chocolate chips – in cookies, brownies, muffins, bars, eaten straight out of the bag…
Sadly, I’ve been told that I cannot enter my own giveaway, or I would be all over this!
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I would add chocolate chips to everything I bake and try all of your delicious recipes. My daughter has issues with gluten and my grandchildren love to bake cookies with me when I visit them. They would be eating chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast!
I’d never heard of this brand before! They sound perfect for me, because I have been a vegan for about six months and miss some of my favorite desserts like crazy. That’s where your blog has helped and these chocolate chips sound like they would really help too!
I would start by making chocolate chip cookies with extra mini chips thrown into the batter 🙂 🙂
We use these chips already and love them. Although my girls and I always steal a few out of the bag to “ sample,” we’d use them in our healthy versions of breakfast bars, muffins, breads, cookies. I feel like adding chocolate chips makes anything look even more delicious to my girls, no matter what other healthy ingredients I sneak in
I would use them in vegan ice cream, banana bread, crepes, granola bars, smores. They literally taste good on anything, they’re even good if you eat them alone??❤️ ? ??????
I would use the chocolate chips in oatmeal bars, bananabread, brownies, with ice-cream and…and…and… ?
The first bag I would use to make my grandson his favorite breakfast muffins. We are so grateful for the Enjoy Life products, because they have been the only “store bought” cookies he could have. The next bag would be mine to get my daily ration of the chocolate food group (what do you mean, chocolate is not a food group?). I would use those chips in everything except my salsa. I just can’t do that! LOVE, love, love Enjoy Life!
My sister and I love them as toppings on our oatmeal. It’s a fun treat and makes it easier to eat. We’ve been big EnjoyLife chocolate chip fans for years so anything that requires chocolate we use EnjoyLife.
How would i use it ? Literaly EVERYWHERE ? chocolate is life
I use these in almost all my baking. However, most often they are poured into my hand and eaten straight from the bag.
I would use them in a baked oatmeal recipe!! Either a pumpkin chocolate chip baked oatmeal or a chocolate covered pretzel baked oatmeal!!!
I would use all the enjoy life chocolate chips to make a veganized version of my grandmas famous double chocolate mint christmas cookies!!!
Hi,
I would use it in all your recipes ? when I was making yours chocolate chip cookies ? I needed to cut chocolate into small pieces and made a big mess in the kitchen. Unfortunately, in Croatia there’s no chocolate chips in stores to buy, especially not vegan ones. So, give me a chance to try real chocolate chips and not cutted vegan chocolate ?
I would use them to make cookies for our giant family get togethers! They are my go to chocolate chips for our family who have a variety of allergies and food preferences. Helps add delicious chocolate while keeping desserts friendly for all!
Yum! If I won I’d be all about making some chocolate chip banana bread. Although I am notorious in my house for eating them on a spoonful of peanut butter ?
I love using Enjoy Life chocolate chips in brownies and bars. I’d love to use some in muffins, been dying to bake some lately.
My husband used these for my first mother’s day. He melted the chocolate chips and made a beautiful ‘edible arrangement’. By far one of my favorite memories!