Homemade Chocolate Chips

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

These homemade chocolate chips are made with only 3 ingredients including cocoa and have none of the preservatives you'll find in store-bought chocolate 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. My recipe is perfect for my vegan chocolate chip cookies or my edible cookie dough, and uses healthy ingredients and a mold or piping.

Why You'll Love This 

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

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

Steps to Make

1. Melt the cacao butter or coconut butter in a water bath and melt. Do not microwave cacao butter, it will burn.

2.Add other ingredients to the melted cacao butter. Stir until smooth or at least grainy-smooth.

3. Pour the mixture into a chocolate chip mold or a silicon potholder, and tip to fill the crevices. Or fill a piping bag or ziplock bag with tip cut, and make tiny dots in rows on a parchment-paper lined cookie sheet.

4. Put the mold or pan 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

1.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.

2.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. If you use coconut oil, however, please keep them refrigerated or they are more likely to melt and stick together.

FAQS

Cacao Butter or Coconut Oil

You can use cacao butter or coconut oil as the binder. Cacao butter is healthier, but coconut oil is easier to find and work with. Here are some more facts about each to help you choose.

Cacao butter. Tastes best for your chocolate chips because it is from a cocoa bean. It is also called cocoa butter and 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's edible though and cacao butter is high in antioxidants, polyphenols and essential fatty acids, which boost the immune system.

Coconut oil. It's fine to choose coconut oil. A jar of coconut oil is easier to find in stores. Buy refined coconut oil however if you choose this instead of cacao butter. Refined will have much less coconut flavor. Also note that coconut oil chocolate chips are more likely to melt in warmer temperatures you'll want to keep them refrigerated whereas cacao butter provides a more solid structure so you can keep cacao butter chips in the pantry.

Is It Cheaper to Make Your Own Chocolate Chips?

Yes it is cheaper to make homemade chocolate chips than to buy them from a store.

• A quarter cup of quality store bought chocolate chips costs about $3.
• A quarter cup of homemade chocolate chips costs about 50 cents

Plus homemade chocolate chips have not additives and you can control the flavor.

How do you make chocolate chips from cocoa powder?

Simply melt cacao butter, cocoa powder and maple syrup, pour in a mold and you have chocolate chips.

How long does homemade chocolate chips last?

Stored in a cool dark place, homemade chocolate chips made cacao butter should last about a year before tasting stale. If you use coconut oil instead of cacao butter, the chips will also last a year but must be stored refrigerated because coconut oil has a lower melting point.

Recipes that Use Chocolate Chips

• Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Edible Cookie Dough
• Edible Cookie Dough Bars
• Cookie Dough Bites
• Chocolate Chip Muffins

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📖 Recipe

Homemade Chocolate Chips

Created by Dee Dine

Make homemade chocolate chips with this 3-ingredient recipe made with simple healthy ingredients and made easily with a mold or piping. Yield: 2 cups.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr

Total Time 1 hour hr 5 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 8

Calories 108 kcal

Equipment

• Silicon pot holder molds
• traditional chocolate chip mold

Ingredients

  

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Chocolate chips

• ¾ cup cocoa powder
• ¾ cup cacao butter (or coconut oil)
• ¼ cup maple syrup

OPTIONAL:

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

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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 or coconut butter in the measuring cup and keep stirring until it is completely melted. Do not let water or condensation touch either.
• Remove the measuring cup of melted cacao butter or coconut oil from the water, and stir in 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 maple syrup if it is not.
  ¾ cup cocoa powder, ¾ cup cacao butter, ¼ cup maple syrup, pinch of salt, ½ teaspoon vanilla, ¼ teaspoon coffee
• Stir up the entire mixture smooth with a spoon. It will be a little grainy, but if you want it smoother you can add a teaspoon of melted coconut oil and/or microwave the mixture for 15 seconds.
• Pour the mixture into the silicon potholder or other mold. Tip to fill the crevices. Or fill a piping bag or ziplock bag with tip cut, and make tiny dots in rows on a parchment-paper lined cookie sheet.
• Put the filled potholder or mold or pan into the freezer, sitting it flat, for at least one hour.
• Pop the chips out of the mold and store in a jar.

Storage

• Keep the jar of chips covered in a cool dark place. If you used coconut butter, you'll want to store it in the refrigerator on hotter days. Either way, your chips should last a year or more.

Notes

Yield: 2 cups.

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.

Cacao butter vs Coconut Oil. You can use cacao butter or coconut oil as the binder. Cacao butter is healthier, but coconut oil is easier to find and work with. 

Nutrition

Calories: 108kcalCarbohydrates: 15gProtein: 3gFat: 8gSaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.2gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gSodium: 6mgPotassium: 248mgFiber: 5gSugar: 6gCalcium: 34mgIron: 3mg

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