Make vegan chocolate chips with this 3-ingredient recipe, that is also dairy-free, plant-based and vegan, and easily made in a rubber pot holder as the mold.
Vegan Chocolate Chips
Vegan chocolate chips that have only 3 ingredients. Wouldn't it be nice to have homemade chocolate chips on hand that have all the ingredients you trust?
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Chocolate chips, especially vegan and dairy-free, are not always easy to come by.
These chocolate chips are rich in so many nutrients, but especially high in antioxidants which fight disease and inflammation, and hard-to-come-by magnesium, so important in mood-balancing and more.
How Do You Make Chocolate Chips From Scratch?
I blend cacao butter, cacao powder and maple syrup. Best of all, I share with you a special shortcut to create a chip shape that doesn't involve piping each chocolate chip which can be tedious. So easy, so fast, and suddenly we are awash with freshly homemade chocolate chips.
I often use these in my white bean chocolate chip cookie dough recipe. You, however, can use your new homemade chocolate chips on anything you please.
Ingredients for Vegan Chocolate Chips
- ½ cup cacao powder (healthier) or cocoa powder (more common)
- ¼ cup cacao butter (or coconut oil)
- 3 tbsp maple syrup
- pinch of salt, ½ tsp vanilla, ¼ tsp coffee
Steps to Make Vegan Chocolate Chips
1. Melt the cacao butter in a water bath: Set a pot of water to boil, and put a heat-proof measuring cup (pyrex)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.
2. Add other ingredients: Remove the measuring cup of melted cacao butter from the water, and stir in other ingredients, keeping the maple syrup to 2 tbsp at first. Taste-test to be sure it is sweet enough for you; then add more of the other tbsp of maple syrup if it is not.
3. Stir up the entire mixture smooth with a spoon.
4. Pour the mixture into a chocolate chip mold or a silicon potholder, and tip to fill the crevices.
5. 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.
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! They should make a candle of that smell. Maybe they do!
How to Customize The Flavors
Also, by now, also, you realize how customizable these chips are -- add in cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, orange essence...anything you please to make custom flavored chips.
Try My Other Vegan Chocolate Treats
Chocolate Coated Marzipan
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Vegan Chocolate Chips
Ingredients
Chocolate chips
- ½ cup cacao powder or cocoa powder
- ¼ cup cacao butter (or coconut oil)
- 3 tbsp maple syrup
OPTIONAL:
- pinch of salt, ½ tsp vanilla, ¼ tsp coffee
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 in other ingredients, keeping the maple syrup to 2 tbsp at first. Taste-test to be sure it is sweet enough for you; then add more of the other tbsp of maple syrup if it is not.
- 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.
- Now you have your own homemade chocolate chips. You are welcome.
Ro
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!
Dee Dine
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