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 love enjoy life chocolate chips!! My daughters and I love to make chocolate chip cookies and add the chunks to our brownies.
I’d bake PB cookies with chocolate chips, some chocolate covered strawberries, chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing… literally any and every thing. Chocolate caramels , chocolate coconut bites like I can go on forever!
I would definitely eat most of the chips straight out of the bag (who can resist?!) but I might be able to spare a few to make some vegan chocolate chip pancakes! They were my childhood favourite! This recipe for chocolate chip baked oat bars looks good too, going to have to try it soon.
I would definitely eat most of the chips straight out of the bag (who can resist?!) but I might be able to spare a few to make some vegan chocolate chip pancakes! They were my childhood favourite! This recipe for chocolate chip baked oat bars looks good too, going to have to try it soon.
If a had a years supply of these amazingly vegan chocolate chips i would be forever grateful! Which would have to be a HUGE supply because I would use them everyday in all of you the dessert recipes, to show the world you can have everything you love chocolate covered and cruelty-free!!
My mom was always a chocoholic (she even did paid testing for super fancy chocolate companies!) and a baker, but she is now in advanced stages of Alzheimer’s and can’t bake anymore. She can’t even speak understandably now, but one thing that lifts her spirits daily is chocolate. When she’s crying and having a meltdown, chocolate to the rescue!
I bake for her, too, and chocolate chips get expensive. With that many chocolate chips, I could bake for her all the time and keep her happy (and healthy… she got down to 90 pounds for a while).
I would love to use them in making my for ever love brownes.. hope i win ..
I would use them in many different vegan recipes and share my creations with family and friends. Good cocolate chips are expensive in Alaska..
Put them into my pb (or almondbutter) jar and spoon as usual 🙂
I would make some of your recipes with them! We live in Norway and don’t have access to vegan chocolate chips..?