What can I make with chocolate chips?
Chocolate Chips is worth measuring carefully - it is the ingredient least willing to be improvised with. Recipes using chocolate chips are below, plus handling notes.
12 recipes with chocolate chips
Chocolate Lava Cake
Individual cakes with molten chocolate centers.
French-American27m4
Brownies
Fudgy chocolate squares with a shiny crackly top.
American38m16Moist Chocolate Cake
A rich, decadent chocolate cake perfect for any occasion.
American60m12
Mole Poblano
Complex chocolate-tinged chile sauce over turkey or chicken.
Mexican90m6French Chocolate Truffles
Rich, creamy, and decadent chocolate treats rolled in cocoa powder or confectioner's sugar.
French170m20
Chocolate Caramel Crispy
Grease and line a 20 x 20cm/8" x 8" baking tin with parchment paper.
British4
Polish chocolate & walnut cake
Heat the oven to 170C/150C fan/gas 3½.
Polish4
Rocky Road Fudge
Line an 8-inch-square baking pan with wax paper or foil, and coat with non-stick spray.
United States4
Bulgarian Honey Cookies
Preheat oven to 350 F.
4
Chocolate churros with chocolate & salted caramel sauce
step 1 To make the sauce, tip the sugar and butter into a saucepan and bring to a simmer until the sugar has melted, then stir in the cream and simmer until you have a smooth sauce, about 2-3 mins.
Spanish4Chocolate Raspberry Brownies
Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4.
United States4
Pistachio Kunafa Chocolate Cake and Cupcakes
1 For Chocolate Cake:Ready all the ingredients.
Saudi Arabian4
Working with chocolate chips
- 1Measure by weight where you can; baking with chocolate chips is much less forgiving than cooking.
- 2Melt gently over low heat or in short bursts, stirring between each one.
- 3A pinch of salt makes sweetness read as flavour instead of just sugar.
- 4Cool fully before slicing or storing so the texture sets properly.
What goes well with chocolate chips
Chocolate Chips is at its best with butter, vanilla, salt, cream, flour and eggs. Any two or three of those, plus chocolate chips, is already a dinner rather than an ingredient list.
Storing chocolate chips
Dry chocolate chips keeps for months in a sealed container away from light and heat. Once cooked, cool it quickly, refrigerate within two hours, and use within 3-4 days; cooked grains and legumes freeze extremely well in single-portion bags.
Substituting chocolate chips
If you are out of chocolate chips, look for something that behaves the same way in the pan rather than something that tastes the same. Match the moisture level, the cooking time, and the richness, and adjust the liquid slightly if your substitute releases more water. When in doubt, describe what you actually have in the chat and Mr. Chef will rewrite the recipe around it.
Chocolate Chips recipes: common questions
- What can I make with chocolate chips and not much else?
- Plenty. With chocolate chips plus an onion, garlic, oil, and salt you already have the base of a skillet dinner, a soup, or a simple sauce. Add a starch - rice, pasta, bread, or potatoes - and it becomes a full meal. The recipes above are ordered so the ones needing the fewest extra items come first.
- What is the quickest chocolate chips recipe?
- Look for the entries above marked 20 minutes or less. As a rule, anything cut small and cooked in a hot pan beats anything roasted whole, and one-pan recipes save more time in cleanup than in cooking.
- Can I substitute chocolate chips?
- In most recipes yes, as long as the replacement plays a similar role - similar moisture, similar cooking time, similar richness. Swapping across roles (a watery vegetable for a starchy one, for instance) usually needs a change in liquid or cooking time too.
- How do I use up leftover chocolate chips?
- Fried rice, a frittata, a grain bowl, a soup, or a quesadilla will absorb almost any leftover chocolate chips without a recipe. If you want something specific, tell Mr. Chef exactly what is in the fridge and it will build a recipe around it.