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    Home » Desserts » Chocolate Desserts » Homemade Chocolate Chips

    Homemade Chocolate Chips

    Feb 13, 2018 · Updated: Dec 19, 2022 by Dee Dine · Affliate links disclosure.

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    Make homemade chocolate chips with this 3-ingredient recipe made with simple healthy ingredients and made easily with a mold or piping.

    How to: Homemade Dark Chocolate Chips (3-ingredients - vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free)

    These homemade chocolate chips are made with only 3 ingredients and have non of the preservatives you'll find in store-bought chips. Wouldn't it be nice to have homemade chocolate chips on hand that have all the ingredients you trust? Also, store bought chocolate chips that are dairy-free are not always easy to come by.

    Table of Contents
    • How Do You Make Chocolate Chips From Scratch?
    • Why You'll Love This Recipe
    • Ingredients You'll Need
    • Steps to Make Chocolate Chips
    • Recipe Tips
    • Storage
    • FAQS
    • More Homemade Healthy Treats
    • Homemade Chocolate Chips

    How to: Homemade Dark Chocolate Chips (3-ingredients - vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free)
    Make homemade chocolate chips with this 3-ingredient recipe made with simple healthy ingredients and made easily with a mold or piping.

    How Do You Make Chocolate Chips From Scratch?

    These homemade chocolate chips are made from scratch, so you can control the ingredients, and customize with different flavors. With only a handful of ingredients, you can make chocolate chips that are actually nutritious, high in antioxidants and magnesium.

    Why You'll Love This Recipe

    The ingredients come together quickly and the chocolate chips solidify in the freezer. Use any mold - I used an oven mitt - or fill a frosting bag with the mixture, and pipe dots onto parchment paper and chill.

    Use them in anything that requires chocolate chips such as my chocolate chip cookie cake, or my cookie dough bites recipes.

    Ingredients You'll Need

    • cacao powder (healthier) or cocoa powder (more common)
    • cacao butter (or coconut oil)
    • maple syrup
    • salt, vanilla, coffee

    Steps to Make Chocolate Chips

    1. Melt the cacao butter in a water bath and melt.

    2.Add other ingredients to the melted cacao butter.

    3. Pour the mixture into a chocolate chip mold or a silicon potholder, and tip to fill the crevices.

    4. Put the mold into the freezer, sitting it flat, for at least one hour, then pop the chips out of the mold and use or store.

    Recipe Tips

    Don't microwave cacao butter because it will burn. You need to use a water bath to melt it. Just put a pyrex measuring cup in a pot of boiling water. Be sure to not let water splash into the chocolate or it will seize.

    Once you've added ingredients to the melted cacao butter, don't forget to taste-test. This is your chance to add more sweetener or even a spice if needed.

    Customize. These chips are customizable. You can add in spices such as cardamom, cinnamon, or nutmeg. Or extracts such as orange or almond or peppermint.

    Storage

    Store the chips in a jar in a dry dark place. They can last up to a year if kept dry.

     

    How to: Homemade Dark Chocolate Chips (3-ingredients - vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free)

    FAQS

    What Is Cacao Butter?

    Cacao butter, also called cocoa butter, is a yellow blocky ingredient sold in bags online here or in Whole Foods, and you might recognize it as an ingredient in skin-smoothing soaps. It is wonderful is soap but it is even better in harder chocolate creations such as homemade chocolate chips.

    And so nutritious! Cacao butter is high in antioxidants, polyphenols and essential fatty acids, which boost the immune system, have anti-inflammatory impact and support other organs as well.

    Cacao butter is not that expensive, lasts a long time in your pantry and is worth having it online. I can say that on days I am somewhat bored, I actually go into the pantry and sniff the inside of my cacao butter bag because it smells delicious!

    Is It Cheaper to Make Your Own Chocolate Chips?

    Cacao butter can be pricy and hard to find, so it's probably more accurate to say it's more convenient and healthier to make homemade chocolate chips so you can control the ingredients and avoid additives.

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    How to: Homemade Dark Chocolate Chips (3-ingredients - vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free)

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    How to: Homemade Dark Chocolate Chips (3-ingredients - vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free)

    Homemade Chocolate Chips

    Make homemade chocolate chips with this 3-ingredient recipe made with simple healthy ingredients and made easily with a mold or piping.
    5 from 2 votes
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    Cook Time 20 mins
    Total Time 20 mins
    Course Dessert
    Cuisine American, International
    Servings 4
    Calories 106 kcal

    Ingredients
      

    Chocolate chips

    • ½ cup cocoa powder or cacao powder
    • ¼ cup cacao butter (or coconut oil)
    • 3 tablespoon maple syrup

    OPTIONAL:

    • pinch of salt, ½ teaspoon vanilla, ¼ teaspoon coffee

    Useful Equipment

    • 1 2-cup glass measuring cup
    • chocolate chip molds
    • silicon pot holder with mini hexigon design
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    Instructions
     

    Make chocolate chips

    • Set a pot of water to boil, and put the measuring cup in the water.
      Put the cacao butter in the measuring cup and keep stirring until it is completely melted. Do not let water or condensation touch the cacao butter.
    • Remove the measuring cup of melted cacao butter from the water, and stir into the cacao butter the other ingredients, keeping the maple syrup to 2 tablespoon at first. Taste-test to be sure it is sweet enough for you; then add more of the other tablespoon of maple syrup if it is not.
      ½ cup cocoa powder, ¼ cup cacao butter, 3 tablespoon maple syrup, pinch of salt, ½ teaspoon vanilla, ¼ teaspoon coffee
    • Stir up the entire mixture smooth with a spoon.
    • You can pour into the silicon potholder, and tip to fill the crevices.
    • Put the filled potholder into the freezer, sitting it flat, for at least one hour, then pop the chips out of the mold and store in a jar, covered in the refrigerator.

    Notes

    Melting cacao butter. Don't microwave cacao butter because it will burn. You need to use a water bath to melt it. Just put a pyrex measuring cup in a pot of boiling water. Be sure to not let water splash into the chocolate or it will seize.
    Taste-test. Once you've added ingredients to the melted cacao butter, don't forget to taste-test. This is your chance to add more sweetener or even a spice if needed.
    Customize. These chips are customizable. You can add in spices such as cardamom, cinnamon, or nutmeg. Or extracts such as orange or almond or peppermint.
    Storage. Store the chips in a jar in a dry dark place. They can last up to a year if kept dry.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 106kcalCarbohydrates: 19gProtein: 3gFat: 6gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.2gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gSodium: 6mgPotassium: 266mgFiber: 5gSugar: 9gCalcium: 38mgIron: 3mg
    Keyword 3-ingredients, dark chocolate, homemade chocolate chips, vegan
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    1. Ro

      August 21, 2020 at 8:39 pm

      5 stars
      Hello

      I can't wait to try your recipe.
      When measuring the cocoa butter, is it 1/4 cup solid or melted? And what is the weight in grams?

      Thank you!

      Reply
      • Dee Dine

        August 22, 2020 at 12:51 pm

        Hi! Glad you are excited about this recipe. The cacao butter is 170.25 g. If you look for the button below my ingredients, you'll see a choice for metric. And the cacao butter comes hard and you need to melt it as I describe in the instructions. Good luck! Dee

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