Cookies are great for any season! So, why not make a batch of these Chocolate Chip Oat Squares and pop them in the freezer to have a treat when the craving hits!
Holy hotness!!! Someone turned up the temperature gauge to bust today. We knew it was coming and there’s no hiding when it hits. Welcome to summer in Andalucia!
When the heat hits like this, I try so hard to get organized with food. Because at the end of the day, we like to eat. Surprise! But, let’s face it, cooking and baking can be a real chore when you’re living in an inferno. And did I mention, I am living in an inferno.
But, I’ll continue to suffer through the mid summer heat doing what I do best, cooking.
And for now, we’re going to take a look at these delightful little morsels of goodness.
Ingredients To Make The Chocolate Chip Oat Squares
And here’s a little show and tell of the main stars of the show. Nothing fancy, just your basic baking ingredients. Remember, the full recipe is always located at the bottom of the post. .
Making the Cookie Dough
This is honestly much like Chocolate Chip Cookies, but with the addition of oats. So, we start by mixing the sugars and butter together until we have a smooth and light-ish batter like you see here.
Now we add those eggs, one at a time and mix well after each addition. We add eggs one at a time to make sure they get mixed into the butter nice and good and not just into each other. If that makes any kind of sense!
Add the Dry Ingredients And Finish Them Off
Let’s add the flour and oats. Mix with a wooden spoon just to incorporate. Toss in the chocolate chips and stir to combine. Easy.
Flatten Out the Cookie Dough
Okay, so this just take a bit of patience. The best way to do it is to mound 4 or 5 heaps of the cookie dough on the baking tray, evenly spread out. Then start flattening it down with a wooden spoon. You can use your hands if you find this works better. Push it in evenly and firmly until the bottom is covered.
Pop it into the preheated oven and bake for about 15 minutes.
Fresh From The Oven
And just like that, we have some cookies to leave to cool and enjoy!
This batch makes a lot, like 45 squares. You an cut them into bigger bars if you like. I quite liked the squares. It means you can have more!
These freeze great. Just let them cool completely and store them in an airtight container to prevent freezer burn. Nobody likes freezer burn.
These were well received at our place. My husband, who doesn’t like to admit he has as sweet tooth, ate more than I care to count. I enjoyed more than my share as well.
They are a great snacking cookie. These are not chewy or dense cookies. They are lighter, almost scone like with oats. And then studded with dark chocolate for extra goodness.
Hungry For More Ideas
- Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Squares
- Chewy Coconut Squares
- Chocolate Chip Lemon Squares
- Cherry Chocolate Chip Blondies
- Chocolate Macaroon Brownies
Well, my dear friends that’s it for today’s short and sweet recipe. Hope you are all staying cool and enjoying the kick off to summer. I’m off to sit in front of a large fan with a cold drink.
Make the cookies and enjoy them with a LARGE iced coffee. Yum.
Keep on cooking and I’ll see you in a few days. Cheers!
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Chocolate Chip Oat Squares
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups plain flour
- 3 cups oats
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup chocolate chips semi sweet
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F/180 C. Grease and line with parchment paper a large baking tray, 9 x 13 inches
- In the bowl of your electric mixer, combine the two sugars with the butter. Mix on high speed for about 3 minutes.
- Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each additions. Whisk in vanilla
- Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt.
- Add the flour and the oats to the batter and stir until just combined, about a minute.
- Fold in chocolate chips
- Press evenly into prepared pan.
- Bake for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and lay tray on a cooling rack and leave them to cool completely.
- Cut into squares and store in an airtight container. Will keep up to 3 days. Freeze up to two months.
*A note on times provided: appliances vary, any prep and/or cook times provided are estimates only.
Notes
- Any kind of chocolate chips will work in this recipe, but I used dark semi sweet.
- You can dot extra chocolate over the cookie dough once you have pressed it into the pan.
- These bars are not chewy, but more oat like with the texture of a scone almost.
- These freeze really well. Just make sure you let them cool completely before freezing. Also, use an airtight container so they don’t get freezer burn.
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So here I am coffee in hand checking my email and yours istop of the pile. Thank goodness my wife had made some choc chip cookies and we still had a few left as I read this recipe.
As always your photos are wonderful and this reads so well. i am going to have to make some of these and pretend that the oats make it healthy and not a sugar fest !
Totally healthy Vince…lol. Thanks my friend and hope all is well.
These chocolate chip oat squares look so yummy! I love having treats like this on hand in my freezer.
Thanks Joss. Yes, me too. With two teens in the house it helps with stuff in the freezer for sure!
Love the idea of doing a square bar as opposed to a cookie. My husband and daughter will love these!
Thanks Kristen. I usually always do cookies, but sometimes a bar cookie is a great ideas. Have a great week!
Delicious and fast! I love just pressing the dough in instead of forming cookies, great idea. These didn’t make it to my freezer 😉
Did you only bake these for 15 mins. as stated in the recipe? That seems awfully short for a 13×9 pan. Mine were no where near done.
It isn’t hot here, but it would be totally worth baking in the heat to make these squares! They disappeared so fast I wasn’t even able to get some in the freezer! Delicious.
I love cookies and I love squares. You just combined two of my favourite things! Luckily for us, we found a commercial quarter counter top oven (Holman) that doesn’t heat up the house when we bake. I can’t wait to try this recipe.
Call me lazy, but I love the idea of making one giant cookie bar instead of individually scooping out a whole bunch of individual cookies! And bonus points for using dark chocolate instead of raisins. 🙂
Yes, absolutely! And chocolate over raisins any day!
would love to bake these healthy squares…great recipe!!
Thanks so much. They were really great!
I made these, yesterday. Is 15 mins. the correct total baking time? For a 13×9 pan, that doesn’t seem right and mine were no where near done. I left them in for an additional 4 minutes and they were still raw.
Hi Amy, I used a jelly roll pan that was 13 x 9 inches. The cookie dough was flattened out quite thin and they did bake in 15 minutes. I’ve made them about 5 times at this time. I would say this, when they come out of the oven, they are still really wobbly in the middle and they are supposed to be this way. Otherwise they will be dry as they cool. I do know that baking time does vary from oven to oven and even the type of pan you use, (even if it is the size stated). I hope this helps.