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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If not using Stevia, or the syrups, how much sugar would I use. Or erythritol? Thanks!
Sorry unfortunately we have not tested the recipe with regular sugar so really have no idea how it would turn out texture-wise or if it would hold together. Be sure to report back if you experiment!
I’ve used these chocolate chips to make kale cookies. They are delicious!!!
I use them in everything, and I LOVE Enjoy Life Dark Chocolate Chips. School lunches is probably where I would use them the most.
I use Enjoy Life chocolate chips already in absolutely everything- especially Chocolate Covered Katie recipes! My favourites are Brownie Batter Overnight Oats and Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies (I make the dough for these and eat it raw several nights a week!) The only problem is, I go through these chocolate chips so fast that I’m buying several packages a week!
chocolate chip oatmeal cookies!!!
I use about four bags of vegan chocolate chips per week. I bake cookies, boatmeal, pumpkin spice bars, muffins, and of course I like to eat them straight out of the bag!
As a snack out of the bag. And IF there are any left I’d add to pumpkin bread.
I would probably eat a good many straight out of the bag-especially if they’re dark chocolate ones! They’d also be amazing in your black bean brownies, Flourless blender muffins, crustless pumpkin pie, I could go on and on!
I LOVE chocolate chips!! and would LOVE to win a year’s supply too! I always make my granddaughters pumpkin muffins with chocolate chips, every month when I travel to Nashville. I would use a good deal just for them! Also, I LOVE banana bread with chocolate chips, pancakes with chocolate chips, frozen yogurt with chocolate chips…….what’s not good with chocolate chips in it??? In your hand, with mini marshmallows and peanuts for a snack too!
Would love to win
I,ve bought these before and they are my favorite! I would use these for bars and cookies but my favorite way ia straight from the bag!