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:
Love these chocolate chips! I have so many ideas… I would make some peppermint patties, melting the chocolate chips for the coating. I would make chocolate mousse with aquafaba, sugar, and melted chocolate chips. I would make some fudge – I have a few different fudge recipes I want to try – I just made fudge last week with vegan condensed milk and Enjoy Life chocolate chips. I would make a big batch of meringues (from aquafaba and sugar) and then dip them in melted chocolate chips and add some sprinkles on top. The other day I dipped some frozen banana pieces in melted chocolate (with a little bit of coconut oil) and then covered with shredded coconut – it was so good. I would make some vegan truffles – like Oreo Truffles or strawberry creme filled truffles. Obv I’d make the chocolate chip breakfast squares on this page. I’d make a black and white vegan cheese ball (which essentially is cashew and coconut oil based, then half dipped in melted chocolate). And the list goes on…. I mean, what can’t you dip in chocolate?!
I would definately eat them straight out of the bag! But I also love chocolate chips for pancakes and sprinkled on peanut butter toast.
I would use the chocolate chips in your healthy cookie dough! Or in banana nicecream… Or the blondie bars… Or just in every possible dessert I’d be making, it’s impossible to have too much!
Go on a cck baking spree!
I would use them for so many of your recipes that I make regularly, chocolate chip cookies are the best, but my favorite way to eat Enjoy Life chips are straight out of the bag! I can’t even tell they are vegan!!!
I would use the chocolate chips in my favorite cck recipes, like the black bean brownies or the brownie batter overnight oats. Or pretty much any baked goods, smoothies, or just plain out of hand eating! Yum!
We put chocolate chips on everything, I have added to ice cream, brownies, cookies, muffins and cake.
add to a chocolate cream pie before topping for a double chocolate pie. I have even used them in recipes calling for chocolate, Mexican Mole, Couldn’t find anything else so went with chips and it worked!
I would use them to make vegan chocolate chip oatmeal peanut butter everything cookies!!
I would bake lots of goodies for my big family and my church! And brag about the chocolate chips in them being vegan 😉
Definitely cookies!!!