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 bake with Enjoy Life chocolate chips so often! They are amazing in banana bread, or sprinkled into your vegan chocolate mug cake (drool!)
I would make some gluten free chocolate chip cookies! I love enjoy life!
I would use them in muffins, melt some of them to cover the muffins AND put some on top of them 🙂
Oh my goodness, Enjoy Life are my favorites and I put them in nearly everything because it gets my 2 year old to eat! ? my fave way to use them is in pumpkin bread. Yummmm
We absolutely LOVE Enjoy Life mini chips and have been using them for years!!! My favorite way to use them is is vegan chocolate chip oatmeal and nut cookies. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/240591/vegan-chocolate-chip-oatmeal-and-nut-cookies/ However, we love to use them over homemade vegan ice cream, non-vegan ice cream, muesli, strait out of the bag, or in any recipe calling for chocolate chips. I don’t use any other kind! These chocolate chips make a success out of any recipe. I let my 3 year-old, over-the-top-extremely-picky-eater granddaughter, try Enjoy Life mini chips one day, and now I have to hide them in the freezer because she asks for them all the time, and we would never be able to afford to keep up with her affinity for them!!!
I made these chocolate chip breakfast bars and they have a good flavor, but the texture is not as pleasing as some bars I’ve had. This is probably because of the lack of leavening in them. Probably anything with Enjoy Life chocolate chips is going to be good, but this recipe is not one of my favorites on this web site. I give it 3 1/2 stars.
I would use them in cookies, brownies, chocolate banana bread, and lots of other recipes. I love chocolate chips.
I would eat these while watching a movie bc I’m trying to stay away from crackers and potato and rice snacks.
How would I use these Enjoy Life chocolate chips? The question is how would I NOT use them??? I will use them to make ALL THE CHOCOLATE COVERED KATIE RECIPES!!!!! I would BATHE in them if that wasn’t a criminal misuse of delicious chocolate. ?
They will be perfect for mini muffins and mega muffins. Pancakes and waffles. Banana bread and zucchini bread. Sprinkle them on oatmeal and porridge. Chocolate chips on ALL THE THINGS!
I would use these in my favorite garbanzo bean chocolate chip cookies, or the many other treats I make to feature on my vegan recipes blog. I would probably also eat them right out of the bag, to be honest.
I would use the chocolate chips to make delicious and guilt free cookies. Nothing is better than a cookie right out of the oven, and with this blog’s amazing recopies and those chocolate chips, it will be like heaven in my mouth.