This easy recipe for homemade Homemade Chocolate Chunks makes delicious dark chocolate that melts in your mouth with only three ingredients! It's perfect to use as a Paleo-friendly or refined sugar-free alternative in any recipes calling for chocolate chips or chunks.
Recipe by Rachel Conners on September 30, 2015
Prep time: PT5M
Total time: PT5M
Rating
4.67 stars (27 reviews)
Keywords
chocolate chunks, homemade chocolate
Ingredients
¾ cup cacao butter
¾ cup 64g cocoa powder
⅓ cup 111g maple syrup or honey
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)
⅛ teaspoon salt (optional)
Categories
Dessert
Cuisine
American
Steps
First, melt the cacao butter or coconut oil. If using cacao butter, I recommend melting it in a double boiler over low heat. Coconut oil can be melted in a saucepan on low heat. You can also melt either in the microwave. Start by heating for about 30 seconds, stir, and heat in 15 second increments, stirring between each, until melted.
Stir the cocoa powder, maple syrup or honey, and if using, vanilla extract and salt, into the melted cacao butter or coconut oil until completely smooth.
Pour the mixture into a lined baking pan or sheet, or to make homemade chocolate bars, pour into a chocolate bar mold. You can add extras like nuts, dried fruit, or coconut either mixed into the chocolate or placed on top of the still-warm chocolate.
Refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour. If you'll be using the chocolate for baking, chop it into chunks. Store in the refrigerator.
Reviews
Ashley on 2026-01-25 (5 stars): Do you think a vanilla simple syrup would work for the sweetener? Skipping the vanilla extract.
Amy on 2025-12-28 (5 stars): Made the recipe a few times. So easy and so good! I used organic coconut oil and make syrup, topped with almonds and coconut shreds. It came out perfect! Thanks for sharing!
Lorin on 2025-06-23 (5 stars): I made these with homemade date "syrup" and little bit of vanilla monk fruit. Came out delicious!!
