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Homemade Chocolate or Carob Chips ~ {Improved} (dairy, soy, and sugar free)

by Adrienne 348 Comments Updated: January 10, 2019

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Today I am sharing a healthy homemade alternative to the store-bought chocolate chips. Here is an amazing recipe for homemade chocolate chips.

I love making wholesome, allergy-friendly substitutes for many store bought items, including Homemade Taco Seasoning, Easiest Coconut Milk, White Chocolate Chips, and Dairy and Sugar-Free Condensed Milk. One of the first recipes that I posted, and also one of my most popular, is my recipe for Homemade Chocolate Chips.

Homemade chocolate chips in a glass bowl

We make these fairly frequently in my home, but honestly, they almost never make it into cookies.

Once they're made my kids regularly ask them ….and since they are made with wholesome ingredients, I pretty much always say “yes.”

The reasons that I initially set out to make my own homemade chocolate chips or homemade carob chips (we usually make them with carob so we don't get overstimulated from too much chocolate), were several.

Reasons to Make Your Own Homemade Chocolate Chips

Basically, the reasons are the same as they are for all of my make your own processed substitutes like:

  • Powdered Sugar Substitute
  • Moroccan Vinaigrette (this dressing is really good. A new recipe should be coming soon!)
  • Homemade Protein Bars
  • Homemade Egg Replacer

1.  Control over ingredients

A lot of folks are on special diets these days, so more and more of us need control over what goes into our mouths. Here's how this chocolate chip recipe can help:

– there's no dairy in these chips!

–  you can make these sugar free. I use xylitol and stevia due to make a candida diet-friendly treat

– No trans fats in these chips (remember what those are? Partially or fully hydrogenated fat. Not good. Fake food)

– No artificial vanilla

– No soy

2.  Cost savings: 

I almost fall over in the grocery store or health food store aisle when I see the price tags on “wholesome” chocolate chips or carob chips. One bag of allergen-free chocolate chips that I saw the other day cost something like $4.59 for a 10 ounce bag….Whoa! That's $7.34 per pound!! Not on our budget!

3.  Time Savings

Sort of.
Recently I've been having a kitchen-time epiphany of sorts.

I used to get really down about my messy kitchen (you might want to read my post about Surprising Help for Messy Moms) and how much time I spend in it. (Maybe someday some of my readers should come on over and see what my kitchen looks like when I'm trying to get a recipe “down.”  Well, really it often looks like that.) But recently, I'm doing a little better about not getting down about the mess. A little.

Even if I spend a lot of time in the kitchen making whole foods, at least I'm not spending 1-3 hours in a grocery store with kids who bug me for stuff I don't want. (Really it's just my youngest who does most of that. He's a sucker for modern packaging.)

If you make your own everything (or lots of stuff….) you're saving time and money shopping. So you are probably going to buy less “impulse shopping” deals. Plus you get to save by not buying $3.79 / gallon gas, or whatever astronomical price it is in your neck of the woods.

4.  Extra Bonus – Size Control

I personally like chips, but I really like chocolate chunks. You too? I figure it's a growing thing because now the stores are selling chocolate chunks. Well, guess what? It's a lot of work to make chocolate or carob chips, but with a knife and a cutting board, you can make chunks pretty easily.

Reasons I Revised this Recipe for Homemade Chocolate Chips

1.  Better Taste. My kids would say now and then that the original Chocolate Chip recipe was good, but they really didn't like it as well as they could.

2.  More “Cookie Friendly”. Like I said, the chips don't regularly make it into cookies, but when they have, mine have held together well.  Like in my Chocolate Chunk Coconut Macadamia Cookies. (These are grain free, sugar free and great!!!)

A few readers have had trouble with this so I wanted to try another oil to see if they would do better.

And they did.

You can make these with cocoa butter. They taste great and hold together well in baking.

The smell of the cocoa butter while it was melting was a treat in and of itself and lends itself to a rich chocolatey flavor of the chips. My kids said that they were so good and tasted almost as, if not as good as, store-bought chocolate chips. (My kids haven't had many of those, but I really consider that to be a compliment.)

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Recipe Notes and Substitutions for Homemade Chocolate Chips

  • Where to buy oils.  I am looking for a good bulk source for cocoa butter that won't break the bank and will be fresh.  I have some more work to do on this and will try to keep you updated.  Most cocoa butter I found was $15/lb or more.  This one works out to about $11 per pound and looks like a good source so I'd try that one for now.
  • I use carob often.   If you use cocoa powder, you may need to add a little more sweetener to the recipe, depending on your taste since carob has an inherent sweetness to it.
  • Stevia extract seems really expensive, but it isn't! – what else would you consider paying more than $8 per ounce for???  Once you find you like it, you can purchase it in bulk.  I purchase the 1-lb container and it lasts for a looooong time.  You can find it for quite a bit less money on Iherb, one of my favorite places to shop.
    Stevia is pretty hard to measure, but these stainless steel mini measuring spoons from Amazon are super duper handy.  The 2nd smallest is the size of 1/32 of a teaspoon so you can easily measure your stevia powder.

 

Norpro Mini Measuring Spoons

Need to substitute for the stevia?  Here is my handy dandy post on this fabulous sweetener.

  • Sweeteners: I recommend powdering the healthiest granulated sweetener you can have.  I used xylitol. This brand is quite reasonable and is made in the USA. For a low-glycemic option for sweetener use 1/4 c xylitol or 1/3 c organic erythritol. Approx. 2 Tbsp Homemade Truvia® would work well too.
  • Parchment: You will have an easier time getting the chocolate / carob mixture out of the baking pan if you line it with parchment.  I just choose not to do so because I'm cheap frugal.
  • Variations: For a yummy variation, add some extract like in Mint Chocolate | Carob Chips.
  • Cocoa Butter: You can use organic palm shortening or organic palm oil instead of cocoa butter.
  • Carob: You can use organic carob powder instead of cocoa, but cocoa is a better low-carb option.
  • Coffee Substitute: You can use a coffee substitute instead of coffee. Here's a link to a homemade version.

Homemade Chocolate Chips in glass bowl

Love chocolate? These Homemade Chocolate Chips (or carob chips) are dairy, soy, and sugar-free and great for baking, trail mixes, or eating right out of the bag! If you know someone on a special diet this will save them a TON of money. The store bought chocolate chips without dairy are a fortune!

Homemade Chocolate or Carob Chips ~ {Improved} (dairy, soy, and sugar free)

These Homemade Chocolate Chips (or carob chips) are dairy, soy, and sugar-free and great for baking, trail mixes, or eating right out of the bag!
5 from 1 vote
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Course: Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: AIP, Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, Grain-Free, Keto, Low-Carb, Vegan
Keyword: Homemade Chocolate Chips
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Cooling Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients

  • 6 2/3 ounces organic cocoa butter
  • 1 cup cocoa
  • 1/4 cup sweetener (your choice)
  • 1/16 tsp stevia extract powder (or 2 scoops; see Recipe Notes above for more info on stevia scoops)
  • 1/2 tsp organic chocolate extract (optional but extra yummy)
  • 1/2 Tbsp granulated instant coffee (optional, but extra nice)
  • 1 tsp organic vanilla extract

Instructions

  • Melt cocoa butter over very low heat in a medium pan.
  • Transfer cocoa butter to a medium bowl.
  • Add remaining ingredients and mix well. I have used my Bamix immersion blender with great success. You could also put the mixture in a blender, but it will be messier to deal with :-).
  • Pour mixture into an 8x8 baking pan (other pans will work as well, but your chunks will be thinner or thicker, depending on the size you use.)
  • Chill in fridge or freezer.
  • Use a knife or spatula to break large pieces out of the pan. Chop on cutting board to desired size with a sharp knife.
  • Store in a cool place such as the fridge until ready to use.

How can you use these Homemade Chocolate Chips?

  • Of course, in cookies and bars
  • Eat them “as is” – like eating chocolate chips out of the bag
  • Break into bigger pieces and use as a rough-shaped chocolate or carob bar
  • Pour into candy molds like I did in my Healthy “Almost Reese's” Candy post and make candies any time of year. I purchased star-shaped silicone molds like these to use on the Fourth of July.
  • Add into homemade ice cream like in Chocolate Almond Chip Coconut Milk Ice Cream or Mint Chocolate Chip Coconut Milk Ice Cream. With temperatures the way they've been around here, I will definitely be bringing out the ice cream maker soon!
  • After melting, drizzle on top of fruit or dip fruit or other things for a special treat. How about chocolate covered strawberries?  bananas? nut clusters? Endless possibilities.
  • Drizzle on cake – this would be fabulous on a cheesecake. Take a look at these fabulous Dairy-Free Cheesecake Tarts from my friend, Ricki Heller. Instead of apricot, drizzle melted chocolate or carob chips on top – Yum!

Coming soon — a recipe for White Chocolate Chips. And maybe–a few will make their way into some cookies!

Hope you love these as much as we do.

How will you use these Homemade Chocolate Chips?

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Adrienne Urban is the Founder and Owner of Whole New Mom. She has a background in research, journalism, insurance, employee benefits, financial markets, frugal living, and nutrition. Seeking a better life for herself and her family, she uses research and consults with many physicians and other practitioners to find solutions to the variety of issues they have dealt with including life-threatening food allergies and thyroid and adrenal concerns. WholeNewMom.com is the result of her experiences and knowledge gained throughout the process. Posts are reviewed and verified by the Whole New Mom team.

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  1. Kelly says

    September 18, 2018 at 10:57 pm

    Hey! Are there any nutritional facts for these?? I can’t wait to make them!! Thanks!

    Reply
    • Adrienne says

      September 18, 2018 at 11:04 pm

      Hi there! We have been hoping to have that functionality on the site but we had a big mess w/ our recipe system. We’re working on it! You can use an online one for now — we just made 4 batches this past week :). EnjoyY

      Reply
  2. Christine says

    September 9, 2018 at 1:36 pm

    Hi,

    What is “6 2/3 ounces organic cocoa butter”. “6 2/3 ounces”?

    It’s probably me but that doesn’t make sense. 🙂

    Thank you,
    Chris

    Reply
    • Adrienne says

      September 11, 2018 at 6:58 pm

      Hi there. It means 6 oz and 2/3 of an ounce. Does that help?

      Reply
      • Christine says

        September 11, 2018 at 8:29 pm

        Yes, thank you.

        Reply
  3. Rose Brennan says

    July 18, 2018 at 9:17 pm

    Hi ADRIENNE,
    I found a website that tells you how to make your own cocoa butter:

    (site deleted by blog owner)
    Thanks
    Rose Brennan

    Reply
    • Adrienne says

      July 20, 2018 at 8:54 am

      Hi Rose! I checked out that link and it doesn’t show how to make cocoa butter–it simply talks about cocoa butter nutrition. I deleted it b/c I didn’t want to confuse other readers. Hope that makes sense – thanks for reading and for commenting!

      Reply
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