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 love to be able to buy these! I live on an island in SE AK, with limited grocery choices so if I won these chocolate chips I would put them in energy balls, in banana bread and even make chocolate chip Irish soda bread. They look yummy! So do these bars. Thanks Katie. I love your site.
These are the only chocolate chips we can eat since we are gf, df, nf, sf. It is realt nice to be able to still enjoy sweets with these! We use them for chocolate chip cookies, pancakes, and as a sweet fix just out of the bag. Thanks Enjoy Life!
Oh, geeze! What wouldn’t I use the chocolate chips in!? My current favorite thing is muffins!
Oh my.goodness, is this competition worldwide? The first thing I’d make is your chocolate mug cake or some chocolate chip cookies. They don’t seem to make vegan chocolate chips in Australia so I always have to break up a cooking chocolate by hand and we all know most of that ends up in my tummy.
Just eat them. 🙂
I’d use the chips to make these bars all the time ! They’re so good !!
Due to my son’s dairy allergy, Enjoy Life is the only chocolate in our house. I looooove the large chunks.
Mmmm LOVE Enjoy Life Morsels… even just straight out of the bag when I’m craving chocolate… ? I use them in all my baking! These were my best discovery yet as I’ve (had to) been dairy free for years. ❤️
Love these chips! Favorite way to use is in your derp dish cookie pie recipe.
Katie, I’ve been following your blog for a couple years now and never had a bad turnout from any recipe. Quite the opposite! Everything had been healthy and delicious. Just made this one tonight and it is excellent! You have a gift. Keep on keepin on!