Homemade Chocolate Chips, Double Boiler Method

If you’re like me, you love chocolate chips but can’t eat anything that’s pre-prepared without compromising your monthly rent or mortgage payment (okay, possibly an exaggeration). Historically, I’ve used 100% pure Baker’s chocolate in place of chips, which Tim and I don’t mind one bit, but it’s not something most kids would crave. This recipe is whole-food, plant-based and paleo. It uses real, pure maple syrup to give the chips a bit of sweetness, but keeps it healthy and whole.

Sugar Free Chocolate Chips

With just 3 ingredients, these refined sugar-free, dairy-free, gluten free, whole-food, plant-based…you name it… chocolate chips couldn’t get better!

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Prep Time 30 minutes mins

Servings: 1 cups

Ingredients Equipment Method

Ingredients

  

• 4 oz 100% Pure Baker's Chocolate
• 1/3 cup Pure maple syrup
• 1/8 tsp Himalayan sea salt

Equipment

• Double Boiler

Method

 

1. Prepare X2 cookie sheets by lining them with parchment paper or silicone baking mats
2. Using a double-boiler method (see below), melt chocolate
3. Once 80% of the chocolate is melted add the maple syrup and salt
4. Stir until it’s thick (the maple syrup will evaporate)
5. Turn the burner off but keep the pots as they are
6. Transfer 1/3 chocolate mix into an icing dispenser, while the other 2/3 stay warm in the pot
7. The chocolate mix will be hot, so you may want to wear thin gloves to protect your hands, or just fold the icing bag over to create an extra layer
8. Work quickly to dollop the chocolate in small dots onto the cookie sheet in rows until the icing dispenser is empty, then refill.
9. Transfer the baking sheet to the freezer so that the individual chocolate chips will free. Once frozen, they can be combined into a freezer-safe container and stored in the freezer for up to 3 months.

Double Boiler Method:

The double boiler method ensures you will not burn the chocolate, which is important since it’s not getting mixed with an oil in this recipe. When the water in the bottom pot starts to boil, the steam from the bottom pot will heat the top pot, melting the chocolate. Easy peasy. If you don’t have an official double boiler, just use a metal bowl or saucepan for the top pot, ensuring the bottom of it doesn’t make contact with the water, or it will burn.

The “cheater” double boiler method uses a steel bowl or small sauce pan as the top pot.