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!
More Healthy Recipes With Chocolate Chips:
I would use these chocolate chips for all of my baking needs! My family and I are changing our lifestyle and having these as an everyday pantry item, would help us all maintain staying on track 🙂
These are my favorite chocolate chips and the ones I used when I first went vegan. I like to use them for the black bean brownie recipe and I would love to try using them in peppermint bark this year for Christmas!
I use these chocolate chips in all my recipes and just to snack on! They’re the best!
I would use these chocolate chips for everything! On top of oatmeal. in cookies and cakes, in trail mix, and in bars like these!
I would use these chocolate chips in literally everything!!! I LOVE Enjoy Life and use their chocolate chips in everything I bake because everything is better with chocolate, am I right?! My favorite is some chocolate chip waffles after a loooong run on the weekends! I am also guilty of eating them right out of the bag. Great option for allergy friendly chocolate!
I would use these in chocolate zucchini bread!
I would make s’mores dip! Just layer marshmallows on top of them in a cast iron skillet and broil for a few minutes. Delicious!
I love this brand of chocolate chips! My sister and I are completely dairy free and gluten free so we would love to experiment and make some avocado sweet potato chocolate muffins; vegan mint chocolate chip ice cream, even a healthy chocolate granola bar or Italian lemon chocolate tart! Those are definitely in our must make list! Your bars also look delicious!!
I didn’t know there WERE mini vegan chips. Will have to see if I can get these in Canada. I think they would be lovely in oatmeal because if they are tiny it’s ok to eat them for breakfast, right? ☺
I always buy these chocolate chips to put in my vegan brownies, cookies, and muffins! Sooo good! I’m nursing and can’t have any of the top 8 allergens because my baby girl is allergic to pretty much everything, so these little morsels of goodness are a lifesaver! (Or a sleep deprived and craving everything chocolate mommy saver. Haha!)