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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Yum! I use chocolate chips most frequently in the classics: chocolate chip cookies and brownies. And I’m getting ready to make rainbow cookies for Christmas, which have a layer of chocolate on top. This is a stellar giveaway!
I use Enjoy Life chocolate chips all the time. I love them as they are allergen free and made of raw, unrefined sugar. And they taste amazing, too!
I would use these in banana muffins, pumpkin muffins, or chocolate chip cookies. I love baking on weekends but sometimes I realize when it’s too late that I have no chocolate chips because my family loves eating them right out of the bag.
I LOVE enjoy life chocolate chips!! My go-to easy dessert is a “trail mix” of these chocolate chips, roasted pumpkin seeds, and craisins. YUM! But really, they’re good in any recipe I’ve tried! Especially chocolate chip cookies! Mmm
You can be sure there are ALWAYS chocolate chips in my kitchen! I eat chocolate chips as a snack, bake them into banana bread, brownies, pumpkin cookies and pretty much anything! I love this brand because I don’t have to worry about dairy ingredients.
I love Enjoy Life chocolate chips especially because I don’t have to worry about my friends with severe dairy allergies when I use them and they taste GREAT!
I use them for brownies, chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cups, pancakes, chocolate covered nuts, chocolate bark, and SO many more things ?
vegan always ?
Omg I would LOVE chocolate chips for life! This is my favorite brand as well. ? I think the question is how won’t I use them? Morning oats, these baked oatmeal bars, cookies, brownies, your brownie & cookie dough dips, oh and I it would be awesome in your blueberry baked oatmeal recipe from your cookbook! ?
I would use these chocolate chips to make banana chocolate protein bites!! Yummm 🙂
I use chocolate chips for everything! I’ve made your black bean brownie four times in the past two weeks, and bought a case of black beans from costco just for your recipe! I obviously always put in chocolate chips:) Thanks so much for your recipes!
Our family LOVES Enjoy life Chocolate for hot chocolate, trail mix, zucchini muffins, cookies of all sorts, you name it! We have 2 kids with a long list of severe food allergies and Enjoy Life has been such a lifesaver. And even for the rest of the family with no allergies, we’ve come to prefer the flavor of their chocolate!
I use these in everything. Literally everything. My kids would say chocolate chip pancakes are their favourite.
Oh yum!! I love Enjoy Life chocolate! They are the only chocolate chips my sister can eat, so we always have then on hand for baking! I would and do use them for chocolate chip cookies, Katie’s pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, Katie’s deep dish cookie pie, and this now this breakfast bar recipe (besides just eating them right from the bag)!
WHere I live, it’s difficutl to access good vegan chocolate chips!!
I’d find an awesome vegan recepie book, and bake a chocolate recepie a week! And share with my friends (vegan and non) to show how amazing and abundantly delicious a vegan diet can be!! ☺️
I love these because they’re also safe for celiacs! Id use some in my gluten free double chocolate shortbread! Yum!
A year’s supply of Enjoy Life chocolate chips! I would make some cookies, and muffins, and some brownies – then bring them into the office and share! These bars look delicious, so will probably make these too ?