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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These chocolate chips sound AMAZING! I really hope I win!!! If I don’t, I will have to buy them myself anyway. I will use them in raw chocolate chip cookies and for eating straight from the package.
A year’s supply of chocolate chips would absolutely go to making goodies for my family and friends! Making food for people is how I show love – and chocolate is definitely one of the most delicious forms of love out there!
Of course, a few of those chips might sneak their way out of the bag and straight into my mouth. Quality control is important, y’know?
Enjoy Life is the only brand I buy! And truth be told, they’re eaten straight from the bag while using them for things like my oatmeal or cookies.
HOW DID I NOT KNOW THEY MAKE VEGAN MINI CHOCOLATE CHIPS???!!! Please pick me, our entire family is vegan and we would love these!
How can I mention ‘a’ thing to use these in? It’ll be in everything I can think of. And, thanks for posting such delicious recipes that are vegan.
I would like to use theses to make a giant chocolate chip cookie castle but for the purposes for this contest and for a dose of reality I would use chocolate chips the make chocolate chip peanut butter pumpkin pie because I like chocolate, peanut butter, and pumpkin together. Don’t knock it till you try it guys!
I’d use these chocolate chips to make vegan cookies to astound my meat lover friends ?
I wold love to win this so much! I’ve been reading your blog for years and have made so many of your recipes. I normally just use regular size chocolate chips but I think your post just convinced me that I need to seek out some Enjoy Life Mini Chips because I do want chocolate in every bite ???
Yum, these look delicious! I’d use these chips in muffins and cookies.. my two favorite things to bake!
I use Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips in all my baking, since we have a son with severe food allergies. We all get to enjoy them.