Chocolate Baked Oatmeal will make oatmeal haters love oatmeal!
This baked oatmeal is a quick and easy breakfast. It makes a delicious breakfast for a special day or any day that you want to make breakfast special.
Baked Oatmeal
This baked oatmeal recipe is my son’s favorite baked oatmeal. When I ask him what baked oatmeal he wants me to make my chocolate baked oatmeal is the one he almost always chooses.
This chocolate baked oatmeal is a little different than my other baked oatmeal recipes. It has an extra ingredient that gives it a little different flavor and texture than my other baked oatmeal recipes.
What ingredients do you need for chocolate baked oatmeal?
- quick cooking or regular oats (use gluten free oats for a gf version)
- brown sugar
- milk
- butter
- eggs
- baking powder
- salt
- vanilla
- baking cocoa
- cream cheese
- chocolate chips
Can baked oatmeal be made ahead?
Yes, baked oatmeal is one of my favorite makes ahead breakfasts. I love to make several pans of baked oatmeal on the weekend. We eat it for breakfast one day and reheat the leftovers during the week.
It is a great way to make breakfast easy for your family.
Can you freeze baked oatmeal?
Yes baked oatmeal freezes great! Make it, bake it, let it cool, and freeze it.
You can make it in a 9×13 pan or divide it up and make it in smaller pans.
Baked oatmeal can even be made in muffin pans for an easy make ahead or freezer friendly breakfast.
Is baked oatmeal gluten free?
Baked oatmeal is gluten free if you use gluten free oats and read labels to be sure that all your ingredients are gluten free. (You can find more gluten free breakfast recipes and tips on GF Kitchen Adventures.)
Can I make baked oatmeal dairy free?
This recipe has cream cheese and milk in it, so it is not dairy free. You could use a dairy free cream cheese, but I am not sure how it would taste in this recipe.
In other baked oatmeal recipes you can use dairy free milk or even water in place of the milk. Yes, you can use water in place of milk in my baked oatmeal recipes.
Need more baked oatmeal recipes?
- Banana Baked Oatmeal
- Peanut Butter Baked Oatmeal
- Cinnamon Roll Baked Oatmeal
- Triple Berry Baked Oatmeal
Double Chocolate Baked Oatmeal
Double chocolate baked oatmeal will make oatmeal haters love oatmeal.
Ingredients
- 4 ½ cups quick cooking or regular oats (either one works or a mix of both)- (use gluten free oats for a gf version)
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 1 ½ cups milk
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 3 eggs
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- ¼ cup baking cocoa
- 4 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
- 1 cup chocolate chips.
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine all ingredients. Mix well and place in a 9×13 pan.
- Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes.
- Serve as is or with a little milk poured over top.
- For more tips and ideas for baked oatmeal, please see my Baked Oatmeal Tips and Facts post.
Originally posted 2011. Updated January 2021.
My 14yo daughter is the baked oatmeal maker in this house. She can’t wait to try to make this version!
Sounds good. I have some chocolate milk in the fridge that we need to get through, I think tomorrow morning I am going to try banana baked oatmeal made with chocolate milk 🙂
That sound great!
I think we will have this Christmas morning.
I made this last night, and it is delicious. Thank you!
Thanks. I appreciate you letting me know that you enjoyed it. It is my kids new favorite. 🙂 Not very healthy, but so good.
this sounds amazing, so excited to try it in the morning
Ok Lynn, this might be my family’s new Christmas tradition!! We LOVE baked oatmeal and normally I just make a regular recipe and the kids beg me to put in chocolate chips, which I usually do if I have them on hand. But this was GREAT!!! I prepared it on Christmas Eve, then put it in the oven while we opened gifts and then it was ready. Oh and I didn’t have cream cheese on hand so I subbed plain yogurt and it was just fine. Thanks again and keep those recipes coming!!!
Thanks, Chrissie. I don’t have cream cheese, but I have yogurt so I can make this!
I am so glad that your family liked it. Thank you for letting me know and I hope you all had a great Christmas!
Due to dairy allergies in our family we can’t do the cream cheese. Do you have a good substitute?
The dairy products help give it a creamy texture, so I am really not sure. You might be able to just use extra liquid, but I am not sure it would be the same.
Maybe I’ll give the extra liquid a try. Thanks!
Thanks to you I am a baked oatmeal addict! It is one of my favorite comfort foods now. Your recipes encourage me to play around with the flavors & ingredients that I have on hand. I made this recipe as you have it here for Christmas & it was a big hit. I’m making it today w/peanut butter added. I will probably eat the whole pan by myself! (Just not all at once!)
I am so glad that you enjoy. Thanks for letting me know.
Made this last night for this morning’s breakfast. I didn’t add the chocolate chips and didn’t have cream cheese, so I used yogurt instead. Everyone liked it–I know they would have loved it more with the chocolate chips. I will try it with the chips next time. Thanks for the recipe.
Very delicious! I didn’t use the cream cheese because I had a brain blockage and forgot to let it sit out to soften. 🙂 Still, very yummy!
I am glad you enjoyed it! I have left out the cream cheese before also when I did not have any and it does work find. Cream cheese makes it richer and a little creamier, but it works fine without it. Thanks for letting me know you enjoyed it.
This looks wonderful. I was thinking of making it and dividing the recipe into two pans, so I can give one pan to a friend to bake on her birthday morning coming up, and keep the other for our kids to try. I’m fairly certain I’ll have to reduce the baking time though. Has anybody come up with a baking time for 2 – 8X8 pans? Thanks in advance ………….
I would reduce that baking time by five minutes or so. 2 8×8 pans will be a little thinner, but not much so I don’t think you would have to cut back on the time a lot. I hope you enjoy it!
Excellent! I’m sure we’re all going to love it!! Thanks so much ………….
I made this tonight as part of our “breakfast for dinner,” using dark cocoa and Ghirardelli semi-sweet chips. It was really good! My husband ate it as his dessert. Thanks for a great recipe!
I am glad that you enjoyed it!