Easily make your own dairy-free and gluten-free vegan chocolate chips in your own kitchen using 100% baking chocolate, coconut oil, and maple syrup.
This recipe was originally posted on November 30, 2014. It was redeveloped and tested on November 17, 2023.
Run out of vegan chocolate chips at home? Whip up a batch of homemade ones with this 3-ingredient vegan chocolate chips recipe!
What You Need for Vegan Chocolate Chips
- 100% Unsweetened Baking Chocolate: we found the best product to use is Ghirardelli’s Cacao Unsweetened Chocolate. It’s made from high-quality cocoa beans and contains no added sugar or dairy.
- Coconut Oil: coconut oil helps thin the chocolate bar out ever-so-slightly so you can create your chips!
- Maple Syrup: we used maple syrup as the sweetener to keep them refined sugar-free, but agave works too.
Kitchen Tools Needed
In addition to the ingredients for these chocolate chips, you’ll also need:
- 2 parchment-lined baking sheets
- Microwave safe bowl or medium pot
- Spatula
- Piping bag with a 1/16″-1/8″ tip or gallon-sized bag
How to Pipe Vegan Chocolate Chips
Storage
We recommend storing your chocolate chips in the freezer. Transfer the hardened chips into a storage bag or container and remove as much air as possible. Store in the freezer for up to 3 months.
Ways to Use Vegan Chocolate Chips
The great thing about these chocolate chips is that you can use them just like normal chocolate chips. Try them in any of the following:
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Vegan Chocolate Chips Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 oz. 100% unsweetened baking chocolate chopped (we used Ghirardelli)
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil
- 3 tablespoons maple syrup
Instructions
- Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Place the chocolate, coconut oil, and maple syrup into a microwave-safe bowl and stir to combine. Cook on high in the microwave for 1-2 minutes, stirring every 20 seconds to be sure the chocolate doesn’t burn. Alternatively, you can combine the ingredients on low on the stovetop.
- Use a spatula to transfer the mixture into a piping bag (with a 1/16″-1/8″ tip) or gallon-sized bag. Place the piping bag into the freezer for 5-10 minutes until it cools and becomes a bit more firm.
- If using a gallon-sized bag, trim the end of a gallon bag. Start off by trimming a tiny hole. If the hole is too big, the chocolate chips will be too big. Adjust the opening if needed. Pipe the vegan chocolate chips onto the lined baking sheets.
- Transfer baking sheets into the freezer and let harden for about 30 minutes.
- The chips should easily be removed from the parchment paper. Store in a small, air-tight container in the freezer.
Tips & Notes
- Yields: 1 heaping cup
- The maple syrup can be replaced with agave syrup. Start with 2 tablespoons and then determine if the chocolate needs to be sweeter.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE can you post the recipe again? I’ve made these so many times but never written it down bc I have this page bookmarked. When I came not his page yesterday to make them the recipe is gone!!! I remember it’s 8oz chocolate and I know I used 1/4 cup maple syrup but for the life of me I can’t remember how many ounces of cacao butter!!! PLEASE can you let me know how many ounces of cacao butter the recipe used to say? (I won’t ever use coconut butter, so only interested in the cacao butter measurement). I would appreciate it SOOOO much!!! This is the only recipe I can find using these ingredients. THANK YOU!!!!
Hi Angie — we found the recipe and re-added it! Thanks so much for calling it out 🙂
I don’t see a recipe on this page.
I am not sure if I am just missing it but I can’t seem to find the actual recipe or ratio anywhere on this page?
Thanks! I needed a milk free product for my nursing a baby daughter….daughter. It appears as though 3 month old Hazel does not like certain foods my daughter eats, dairy being one of them. I have made my own chocolate chips enough (with Stevia) that I actually purchased tiny little molds that work great! I’ll be making some chips for her since she can’t eat the lovely lemon bars I made for her from our organic lemons and home grown chicken eggs! The unsweetened cocoa you referenced is 100% cocao. It says produced in a facility that may contain milk. Pretty sure they clean the equipment so ridiculous someone criticized it as not being dairy free. I mean c’mon man!
This would be great and dairy free, if the bakers chocolate was dairy free, which it isnt. Every bakers chocolate I have found contains milk, or milk products, so sadly an inaccurate description of dairy free.
Hello, I found some dairy free chocolate that you can get in most stores. Here is the amazon link for it.
https://www.amazon.com/Bakers-Cacao-Unsweetened-Baking-Chocolate/dp/B00MS19PA0
It does say “May Contain Milk” but that’s for allergy reasons since it is most likely processed in a facility that also makes chocolate with milk in it.
My mixture came out really, really thick 😫. I’m just wondering if the amount of chocolate was why. I used 4oz. as specified but went by the package it came in, as it tells you exactly how much each square is in oz. I added more maple syrup, coconut butter and even coconut oil until I got a smooth texture to make it possible to use in the piping bag.
Could you tell me how you measured your chocolate? That’s the only thing I can think of that would have been the cause. As they came out great once I added the extra ingredients. I definitely love being able to make my own chocolate chips! Thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you for this recipe, will try using honey for sweetener because whenever I buy maple syrup it doesn’t even last a week!
Made these and they came out super delish! I halved the recipe and tried half with the cocoa butter and the other half with the coconut butter. Both were great! I like the texture of the coconut butter a little better, but the cocoa butter held the shape of the “drop” much better. The coconut butter ones ended up flattening into more of a disc-like shape. I let the chocolate cool for awhile before piping so not sure what I did wrong with that cause yours look great! Either way, this is a great recipe and love the ingredients!
Hi
Thank you. can I use coconut oil instead of coconut butter?
Enjoy Life has soy in it. So happy to come across this recipe. I was searching for a healthy chocolate chip to buy and couldn’t find one!!
This is great, I have been looking for a recipe for homemade dairy free chocolate with coconut butter and I found it! I”m just not sure I can get my hands on bakers chocolate, Do you think I can use Cacao powder? if so I wonder how much I should use .5 or 1 cup. What would you suggest? TIA
Hiya! I realize that I’m kind of late on this recipe but I’ve hard it bookmarked for the better part of a year, waiting for the occassion to make my own chips. I was wondering, can you bake with these chips once they’ve set in the freezer? I want to make black bean brownies and I thought it would be neat to include homemade chocolate chips. Any thoughts? Cheers!
-Phoenyx
You can totally make with these chips!
Eep! I made these and the chocolate was so runny it did not “ship” at all. I have the sheet in the fridge and I’m going to make it into chunks. I wonder what I got wrong?