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:
We (my toddler and I) love the mini chips in Coconut Yogurt and Banana Walnut Chocolate Chip Bread. (Or just by the handful.)
Hi! I love your blog Katie! I use so many of your recipes! I am a vegan, my son is vegan and I often bring desserts to get togethers and events and people are amazed at yummy healthy desserts! I use enjoy life chips often!! I also have friends who are allergic to dairy and gluten so these are always a guarentee I can make them something that is allergy friendly!!!
I would put them on top of peanut butter cinnamon toast for a sweet treat!
I enjoy them along side apples and nut butter. Yum!
I’ve used them for chocolate chip cookies and for a vegan chocolate torte
Hi Katie!!!! Love your blog! I follow you all over social media. Huge fan! I’m a nutritionist and appreciate the health aspect as well as the yummy factor in all your posts. I love to cook and bake as well and lately I have been trying to implement more vegan recipes. I love using chocolate chips when making brownies and muffins. It adds that extra depth of richness that you just can’t get from other ingredients. Thank you again for sharing your amazing recipes with us and I’m excited to see who wins this giveaway!!!
I would just eat them by the bag!!! They are delicious on their own!!!
Oh my lanta, I use these in my every day life! Cookies.pancakes, banana bread. I’m not ashamed to say I always keep a bag in my bed side drawer.
Chocolate chip peanut butter cookies!! Or of course that deep dish cookie pie ?
My son has quite a few food allergies and the enjoy life brand is safe for him! I’d use them to make scrumptious treats and healthy alternatives that I know he can safely enjoy without the risk of having an anaphylactic reaction or feeling excluded from being able to have what most people can eat without worry. Thank you Enjoy Life for your products!! They have been life changing for us ?