Learn how to make your own sugar-free chocolate chips with cocoa powder at home with only 3 ingredients.
What Are Sugar-Free Chocolate Chips?
Regular chocolate chips, in particular store-bought ones, are typically made with sugar and oil as the two main ingredients.
As a result, they are far from healthy and sometimes don’t even taste like chocolate so you need to make your own staple recipe.
So let’s see how you can make your own sugar-free chocolate melts for your keto chocolate chip cookies or any other chocolatey recipes.
How To Make Sugar-free Chocolate Chips With Cocoa Powder
It can be difficult to find good keto-friendly chocolate chips in the store. Most no-sugar chocolate chips are sweetened with some artificial sweetener, like maltitol.
Therefore, they are not good for you, and they will take you out of ketosis – read more about keto-friendly sweeteners in my review of all sweeteners!
While there are a few brands providing stevia-sweetened chocolate chips, they are not always sold where you live, and the best solution is to make your own.
Let’s see how to make sugar-free chocolate chips with cocoa powder at home.
Ingredients
All you need to make sugar-free dark chocolate chips at home are 3 natural ingredients:
- Unsweetened Cocoa Powder – unsweetened chocolate is essential to keep the carbs low.
- Stevia Drops – any flavor, vanilla, chocolate, or classic.
- Coconut Oil – use refined coconut oil if you don’t like the flavor of coconut oil.
Piping Chocolate Drops
The recipe is very easy and straightforward. The most difficult part is to pipe lovely round chocolate chips.
In fact, the combination of the 3 ingredients creates a delicious, liquid sugar-free chocolate with coconut oil.
The trick is to fill a piping bag with the liquid and freeze it for a few minutes until the liquid thickens slightly.
Then, cut the end of the piping bag and start piping drops on a plate covered with parchment paper. The liquid is thicker, and it is easier to pipe into drops.
Allergy Swaps
These low-carb chocolate chips are already:
- Grain-Free
- Sugar-Free
- Dairy-Free
- Gluten-Free
But if you are allergic to some of the ingredients, you can make the following substitutions:
- Stevia: replace the liquid stevia with liquid monk fruit.
- Coconut Oil: replace coconut oil with avocado oil. Note that avocado oil has a much lower melting point, so your chocolate chips might also be runny at room temperature. You would have to keep them in the fridge.
Storage Instructions
You can store your sugar-free chocolate chips in the fridge, in a bag, or airtight container for 1 month.
Otherwise, you can freeze them and use them frozen in any keto baking recipe.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I Add More Flavors To The Sugar-Free Chocolate Chips?
Yes, for a twist of flavors you can add vanilla extract, a touch of chili, salt, or chunks of freeze-dried raspberries.
Can I Make A Chocolate Bar?
Yes, you can turn this sugar-free chocolate chip recipe into bars. Just pour the melted chocolate into a bar mold and let it set in the fridge.
Can I Use Erythritol Instead Of Stevia?
Erythritol and most other powdered sweetener have a lower sweetening power than sugar and much lower than stevia. So to get the same sweetness, you would have to add a lot of erythritol that wouldn’t dissolve properly.
So I don’t recommend using it in this recipe.
Can I Use Chocolate Chip Molds?
Yes, you can, there are some well-built molds that can make the chips more uniform.
Should I Add Cacao Butter?
Cacao butter isn’t necessary for this recipe.
Are Lakanto’s Chocolate Chips Sugar-Free?
Lakanto’s chocolate chips are very low in carbs with 1 gram of net carbs per serving. So they are a good alternative to making your own low-carb chocolate chips.
How Do You Melt Chocolate Chips Without Sugar?
This is a common question. You can melt chocolate chips with either coconut oil in the microwave or with no addition in a bain-marie.
Are Sugar-Free Chocolate Chips Good For Diabetics?
Yes, with only 0.2 grams of net carbs, my sugar-free chocolate chip recipe is diabetes-friendly so it can be used to make diabetes-friendly sugar-free desserts.
Are Sugar-Free Chocolate Chips Keto-Friendly?
Yes, these chocolate chips are my go-to staple recipe for any keto recipe that needs chocolate chips.
Keto Recipes Using Chocolate Chips
I recommend using them with the following keto baking recipes:
Almond Flour Chocolate Chips Muffins
Keto Chocolate Pound Cake
Keto Chocolate Chaffle Recipe
Chocolate Cheesecake Fat Bombs
Keto Zucchini Chocolate Chips Cookies
Keto Chocolate Chips Mug Cake
Keto Chocolate Mousse
Keto Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Sugar-Free Chocolate Chips
0.2gNet Carbs
Sugar-free chocolate chips recipe ideal for cookies, muffins, or desserts. 100% homemade with only 3 ingredients: coconut oil, stevia liquid, and unsweetened cocoa powder. Low-carb, keto, sugar-free, gluten-free, and vegan.
Author: Carine Claudepierre
Prep: 10 minutes mins
Total: 10 minutes mins
Yield: 40 drops
Serving Size: 1 drop
4.98 from 127 votes
Ingredients
US Customary – Metric
- 1.2 oz Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 1.4 oz Coconut Oil melted
- 6-15 Monk Fruit Drops or Stevia Drops adjust to taste, use flavored drops like vanilla, caramel ou chocolate if desired
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Instructions
In a medium mixing bowl, add the unsweetened cocoa powder.
Pour the melted coconut oil, stevia drops, and stir well until a paste is forming.
Adjust stevia drops to taste.
Prepare a plate or baking tray covered with parchment paper. Set aside.
Pour theliquid chocolate onto a piping bag making sure you close the end of the pipe first because when the liquid is lukewarm very runny. Place the piping bag in the freezer for 3-8 minutes before you start piping. You want the liquid to be slightly thicker to be easy to pipe into drops. If too liquid, it runs away into a chocolate tab. The coconut oil will get firmer below 23°C, and the liquid will be thicker and easier to pipe as drops.
Form drops leaving half a thumb of space between each drop. Freeze the plate 10 minutes to set the drops, then lift chocolate drops/chips from the parchment paper and store them in the fridge in an airtight container for up to 1 month.
You can freeze the drops in a bag and use frozen in any keto baking recipes calling for sugar-free chocolate chips.
You can use the drops in cakes, cookies or eat them as a snack in your own nut trail mix.
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Serving Size: 1 drop
Yield: 40 drops
Serving: 1dropCalories: 11kcal (1%)Carbohydrates: 0.5gFiber: 0.3g (1%)Net Carbs: 0.2gProtein: 0.2gFat: 1.1g (2%)
Nutrition panel is for one chip of 2.5 g. This recipe makes about 40 sugar-free chocolate chips
About The Author
Carine Claudepierre
Hi, I'm Carine, the food blogger, author, recipe developer, published author of a cookbook and many ebooks, and founder of Sweet As Honey.
I have an Accredited Certificate in Nutrition and Wellness obtained in 2014 from Well College Global (formerly Cadence Health). I'm passionate about sharing all my easy and tasty recipes that are both delicious and healthy. My expertise in the field comes from my background in chemistry and years of following a keto low-carb diet. But I'm also well versed in vegetarian and vegan cooking since my husband is vegan.
I now eat a more balanced diet where I alternate between keto and a Mediterranean Diet
Cooking and Baking is my true passion. In fact, I only share a small portion of my recipes on Sweet As Honey. Most of them are eaten by my husband and my two kids before I have time to take any pictures!
All my recipes are at least triple tested to make sure they work and I take pride in keeping them as accurate as possible.
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