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 chocolate chips anyway- by there selves, cookies, breakfast parfait or overnight oatmeal, yum!!
I love Enjoy Life Chocolate chips in smoothies, in cakes, pancakes, cupcakes, cookies. (basically anything that Katie has posted a recipe for lol) It is so nice to not have to worry that dairy might ruin a good desert (or meal wink wink) for my lactose intolerant daughter.
First, I will admit I didn’t read through all the comments since most were about chocolate chips. So I apologize if the answer is in the comments. I’ve made this recipe a few times trying different techniques (with different oats, baking for longer). The bars always come out under baked in the middle. Is that what the texture is supposed to be like or am I doing something wrong? They’re tasty, but dense; which I find a little heavy in my belly for the work I do (I walk A LOT for work).
Hi yes they are supposed to be soft! Maybe try doing half a recipe but still in the 9×13, and they will be thinner and thus less soft?
Jason
Hi – Do you grease the parchment paper, and also is the nutritional info for the version with just the water, or does it include the oil or nut butter? Thanks!
No need to grease! 🙂
I made the Chocolate Chip Breakfast Squares To-Go. They are delicious but the texture of mine , although they do hold together, is squishy and soft. Is that how they are supposed to be or did I do something wrong?
Thanks for sharing your fun recipes! I’ve used several.
Hi! Yes they are supposed to be soft 🙂
Jason
Could you please provide me the measuremenrs of this recipe in grams? For conveinience, omit the tablespoon/ teaspoon ingredients. Thanks.
I would use these to mix into granola and to make cookies for my grandkids
In my favorite coconut chocolate chip baked oatmeal recipe. Best CCK recipe.
J would definitely make these breakfast bars! Also there is a vegan oatmeal cookie recipe I love to make with these 🙂
Oh my!!! I’m not sure if I would make the brownie batter , oatmeal chocolate chip breakfast bars or deep dish cookie pie!! So many delicious things to make or just eat them straight up!