You can make your very own chocolate chips!!
Okay, well, I’m actually not clever enough to make them into the shape of chocolate chips…so maybe we’d better call them chocolate chunks.
Chip…Chunk…whatever. How cool are WE to know how to make our very own Chocolate Chiunpks?
I’ve had this recipe for a while, but hadn’t really thought about making it. Then I saw it on another post and was reminded! I’m SO glad for the reminder!
The recipe comes from my FAVORITE nutrition book: Nourishing Traditions.
I adapted it just a bit because it had a pretty bitter chocolate taste…and you may need to adapt it more, depending on how bitter you like your chocolate.
Also, depending on the quality of coconut oil you use, you may or may not have a
coconut-y taste in your chips. I LIKE it with the coconut taste.
Okay…so are you ready?!?!
Homemade Chocolate Chips
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/2 cup rapadura
1 cup coconut oil
1 T. vanilla
Mix ingredients in a glass container and set in simmering water until melted. Mix together well.
(Anybody wanna know what I was doing at exactly 2:04 yesterday?)
(uh, see…you can see my clock there, behind the melting chocolate chip mixture.)
Spread mixture on a piece of buttered parchment paper and allow to cool in the refrigerater.
When hardened, remove parchment paper and break into chunks. Store in refrigerator in an airtight container.
Aren’t they beautiful? Mmmmm-mmmm.
Now…for the Trail Mix part…
1/2 cup pecans
1/2 cup cashews
1/2 cup peanuts
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup dried apricots, cut into pieces
1/3 cup homemade chocolate chips
Mix it all together and store in an airtight container in the refrigerator…if it makes it that far!
Come back tomorrow for a recipe for whole wheat, rapadura Chocolate Chiumpk Cookies!
(And let me know if you can figure out how to pronounce that.) 
Suezque says:
I think I’m gonna be in the kitchen all weekend. (Pretzels, Crackers, Trail Mix…)Could I use another kind of oil in the chocolate Chiunpks?
G doesn’t like coconut flavor at all…
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:15 pm
jayme says:
what if you don’t have rapawhodah. Could you use like…organic brown sugar?
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Suezque says:
Or succanat???
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Char says:
rapawhodah? succanat?
I think I need to get out more!
Love the recipe, Laura… and I love me some trail mix! Thanks!!
February 23rd, 2008 at 1:52 am
Laura says:
Yes, radawhodah, otherwise known as Rapadura…is a great sugar choice because it is VERY minimally processed and has lots of good minerals still in it…but if there’s none available to you and you need to make chocolate chiumpks RIGHT NOW (and you know you do), you can use organic brown sugar or succanat.
And about using a different kind of oil…you can experiment and see. I’m sure something else would work. I’m going to play around with one or two today and see what I get!
February 23rd, 2008 at 7:51 am
Tana says:
I cannot taste coconut in coconut oil. I buy mine at Walmart. The expeller pressed (I think) is supposed to be better, but this is still non hydrogenated.
Laura, how about a recipe for the granola you make?
Malachi said yesterday, “Its granola, I love it.” So I figured we would love it too.
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:52 am
Melody says:
This sounds really easy! I don’t have Rapadura, but I think I can still make this work.
Thanks!
February 26th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
travelinpilgrim says:
Rapadura? Where would you be able to find this? on the internet or Whole Foods?
Thanks! I think I’ll do some research on it too. I have never heard of it, but that doesn’t really mean much, coming from me!
October 12th, 2008 at 10:33 pm