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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These look delicious! I would use the Enjoy Life chocolate chips in a year’s supply of chocolate chip cookies. 😀 Enjoy life, indeed!
Uh, can I say every way? I LOVE chocolate. Yeah, I’d eat them straight out of the bag. I’ve also been dying to make Chocolate Carmel Mini Pies and classic chocolate chip cookies!
I found the Enjoy Life mini chips this weekend at Publix and promptly made the Chocolate Banana Bread Muffins. That is my favorite recipe; hands down. Well except for the Creamy Quinoa, which I use every week. Always changing up the ingredients but so good. Thank you CCK and Enjoy Life for the mini chips.
I would use them in pancakes.
Not sure if the contest is still going on, but contest or no contest, I use the Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips all of the time. I’ve made homemade granola bars, muffins, oatmeal, but one of my favorites is probably as a topping for smoothie bowls. It adds that nice touch of a sweet treat. This recipe looks great, and I look forward to trying it tonight! I don’t know if I have ripe bananas, so I think I’ll try adding the equivalent measurement in canned pumpkin because I already have an open can. Thinking this will make pumpkin chocolate chip squares and hoping for a delicious outcome!
I love them in a spoonful of almond butter!
We use Enjoy Life chips in everything plus straight out of the bag. Many allergies in the family. Some people like a nip of wine when they are cooking with wine. I like some chocolate chips when I am cooking with Enjoy Life chocolate chips.
I love to put chocolate chips in most muffins and cookies. I have a family recipe called fruit kuchen that I have put chocolate chips in and everyone loves it. I need to try these enjoy life chocolate chips, my son was recently diagnosed type 1 diabetic.
What a great give away ?!
I would use the chocolate chips for cookies, bars, muffins, desserts and nicecream and probably eat some straight out of the bag ?.
I love enjoy life chocolate chips! I put them in my oatmeal, and I’ve actually been planning to experiement with making oatmeal bars….so now I’m excited to try this CCK recipe… I’ve never been disappointed yet!