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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I would use them to make all the delicious vegan treats you always post!! As long as I can keep my boyfriend out of the cupboard (I never have any on had because he always eats them all straight from the bag! 🙂
I love enjoy life chocolate chips! My favorite way is to eat them straight from the bag, but I also use them for grain free vegan chocolate chip cookies!
I will use Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips in my Christmas Rocky Road Fudge! Also to melt and dip my raw macaroons in! I love to use them in my energy bites. The mini chips allow you to get chocolate in every bite!!!
Thank you for the wonderful recipes. It really helps to be able to visit your Website for vegan and allergy friendly recipes! Thank you Thank you!!
I would love to win this as I would use these in every chocolate recipe. Chocolate chip pancakes, makeout pie cookie recipe which we love, chocolate chip cookies, etc. My passion is baking and my name is katie so when I saw chocolate covered katie blog I felt like I had a long lost sister, lol. I recently began doing gluten and dairy free along with family and boyfriend. My niece has eczema and my boyfriend is sensitive to gluten and dairy so I enjoy making everyone sweet treats they can eat and feel good about it. I live in the country so these enjoy life chips are very expensive because we have 1 grocery store with them. A supply for a year would be a dream. Please pick me!
These look so delicious! I would make cookies every week if I had a year’s supply! And I wouldn’t have to be so so cautious with my baking supply of chocolate chips, I always have to hide them from snacking fiends around the house! Hehe!
Baked chocolate chips oatmeal, chocolate chip banana bread, pumpkin banana chocolate chip muffins! Oh and pumpkin oatmeal breakfast cups! Soo delicious! And chocolate chips straight out of the bag are perfect too. ?
I would use Enjoy Life’s mini chocolate chips in ANYTHING Chocolate Coveres Katie!!!
We used food for life chocolate chips in our vegan pumpkin muffins, it really helped add moisture and flavour to our muffins. I kept eaten the chips as my wife baked and the kids swiped some to from under the table haha
Ahhhh I would use them in chocolate avocado truffles!!!! Which I happen to be craving right now!
All you do is melt chocolate chips, stir in a mashed avocado and a pinch of sea salt. Then roll into balls and roll in some cacao powder. Stick in the fridge for about an hour then enjoy!!
Or I would eat them straight out of the bag,
but I bet I could come up with a gazillion different ways to use these if I won!
I love freezing bags of chocolate chips and eating a few when I need a little treat! I also love them on rice cakes with peanut butter and honey!