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 have always wanted to find good vegan chocolate chips, but have been unsuccessful where I live. I would really like to win this so I can try them!
My 4 year old loves when he gets mini envelopes with a note inside and a chocolate chip or two when he does something especially sweet or helpful. He’d be very excited for mini chocolate chips. “Aww, they’re so cute!”
All of the above!! There is no wrong way to eat/use/enjoy Enjoy Life Chocolate chips. So yummy <3
I have been making your different boatmeal recipes for several years. I always add mini chocolate chips to recipes as I have found you can use less and yet get more chocolate in each bite. Since my son is allergic to dairy (protein, not just lactose intolerant) we were thrilled when we found Enjoy Life products. We started with the candy bars for Easter and Halloween, then our store started carrying the chocolate chips! We enjoy all the products we’ve tried. Cookies are our favorite since we have to be gluten and dairy free. Enjoy Life tastes great and yet doesn’t have the ingredients many people are allergic to.
I would use them in a pumpkin recipe. The combination of pumokin and chocolate is great
If I did not make these amazing looking oatmeal bars, I would be making oatmeal chocolate chip cookies!
Thanks for the recommendation! I’m very new to this vegan thing and haven’t looked into vegan chocolate chips yet. With Christmas approaching, now I know what brand to look for at the store in order to make my favorite cookies. That is, if I don’t win the giveaway 😉 😉
Those look incredibly tasty! I would use the chocolate chips in cookies and banana bread – dessert is so much more special when it has that bit of chocolate incorporated 🙂
Thanks for sharing your creativity and your virtual kitchen with us, Katie!
Chocolate is for everything! Thanks for pointing out that the Enjoy Life brand chocolate chips are vegan. I eat them from the bag as well!
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES!