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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Helllo.
My daughter and I just made these, and I’m curious about what the texture is supposed to be like? I think something went wrong, we followed the directions but the bars have the texture of congealed porridge…??? They don’t look like the ones in your photos! We used applesauce and coconut oil. Baked for the 28 minutes with oven on and then 20 with it off. I’ve thrown them back in to see if they will dry out.
Any suggestions as to what we might have done wrong?
Hi! Their texture is something between a chewy granola bar and a muffin, so it sounds like maybe you made them correctly? Or, what was the texture you were going for/hoping for?
I would use the chocolate chips to garnish a delicious fruit and yogurt breakfast. As well as making some yummy cupcakes. hehe
Hello, we just made these on the weekend – they were fabulous! You gave so many options for these (honey,no honey, etc) I’d like to try another batch that are less sweet. I noticed in the video you seemingly added only apple sauce. Can you please let us know exactly what your preference is? Fyi, we added about half and half of apple sauce and very ripe banana’s, as well as honey. Next time I want to try all apple sauce and no honey.
Thanks!
I would love to have a year supply of chocolate chips. I would make a lot of healthy muffins, breakfast bars, etc. Such as your Chocolate Chip on the go breakfast bars. They are SO good.
I like to melt chocolate chips on parchment and spread really thin and freeze to make chocolate crackle. I put it in banana ice cream or cover it in nuts and make chocolate bark. I also love chocolate peanut butter cups! Hope I win!
These bars will be perfect vehicle for my son’s maintenance nuts. He’s required to eat a specific amount of nuts as part of his food allergy treatment program and he doesn’t like them, so chocolate chips are essential to mask the nutty flavor. Can’t wait to make them!
I am making these granola bars right now with enjoy life chocolate chips!! I love using them for cookies, bars, trail mix, muffins, banana bread! They are my favorite chocolate chips!
Recipe looks good and wanted to try but you immures amount of water you out in the video
Correction: your recipe on chocolate oatmeal breakfast on the go is missing amount of water you put in. Kindly reply. Thanks
I am vegan and love love love these chocolate chips! I would use them to make chocolate chip cookies, in zucchini bread, and of course to make this delicious breakfast bar recipe! ?
I would the chips in any dessert baking and cream cheese dessert!