Vegan Chocolate Chips Recipe

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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.

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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.
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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
A cone of chocolate wrapped in plastic on a concrete surface.

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.

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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

With just 3 simple ingredients you can make vegan chocolate chips at home that are both dairy free and gluten free!
Prep: 1 hour
Cook: 2 minutes
Total: 1 hour 2 minutes
Servings: 8
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Ingredients 

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.
    A bowl filled with chocolate chips and whipped cream.
  • 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.
    A cone of chocolate wrapped in plastic on a concrete surface.
  • 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.
    A black and white image of chocolate dots on a white background.
  • 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.

Nutrition

Calories: 252 kcal, Carbohydrates: 21 g, Protein: 4 g, Fat: 21 g, Fiber: 7 g, Sugar: 10 g

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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Angie
Angie
June 10, 2023 11:32 am

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!!!!

Emily Richter
June 12, 2023 2:47 pm
Reply to  Angie

Hi Angie — we found the recipe and re-added it! Thanks so much for calling it out 🙂

Anastasia
Anastasia
January 3, 2023 4:58 pm

I don’t see a recipe on this page.

Brandi
December 20, 2022 1:47 pm

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?

Allysgrandma
Allysgrandma
January 24, 2021 3:09 pm

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!

Missing chocolate
Missing chocolate
October 12, 2020 12:28 pm

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.

Weston
Weston
November 5, 2020 10:25 am

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.

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