Vegan peanut butter chips are easy to make at home, without all the artificial ingredients!
Why I love these vegan peanut butter chips
- You only need 3 ingredients.
- They are completely delicious and literally MELT in your mouth!
- The entire recipe takes under a minute to make, with gluten free, dairy free, and sugar free options included.
- Perfect for cookies, ice cream, or eating straight from the container. You’ll want to eat them all without sharing, so be sure to plan accordingly.
Also try these Sugar Free Chocolate Chips
Step by step recipe video
Homemade peanut butter chips vs. store bought
Here’s everything included when you buy a bag of peanut butter chips from the grocery store: sugar, partially defatted peanuts, hydrogenated vegetable oil, corn syrup solids, palm kernel oil, salt, lecithin (soy), vanillin (artificial flavor)
And here’s everything included if you make your own DIY vegan peanut butter chips instead: peanut flour, coconut oil, pure maple syrup or stevia
Not only does the homemade version taste better than store bought (in my opinion!), it’s also much healthier. There are no fully or partially hydrogenated oils, corn syrup, or artificial flavors in these easy vegan peanut butter chips.
The cacao butter version is great for baking, and the coconut oil version is super tasty in no bake desserts or sprinkled over Banana Ice Cream or Coconut Ice Cream.
Once you try homemade, you will never go back!
Key ingredients
Peanut butter – The recipe works with either peanut butter or peanut flour. You could also use almond butter, cashew butter, pistachio butter, or even Coconut Butter.
Coconut oil or cacao butter – Refined or virgin coconut oil are both good options. Or use cacao butter for peanut butter baking chips. Do not substitute vegetable or canola oil, as these will not firm up when chilled and you’ll get melty peanut butter soup!
Sweetener – I like pure maple syrup or agave, for refined sugar free peanut butter chips. If you want a low carb or keto option, go with liquid stevia drops.
You will also love Homemade Chocolate Bars
How to make vegan peanut butter chips
- Start with coconut oil or cacao butter in liquid form. If yours is solid, gently heat it up in the microwave or in a small pot on the stove top until melted.
- Combine the peanut butter or peanut flour, melted oil or butter, and sweetener of choice in a cereal size bowl. Whisk with a fork or spoon until it forms a smooth, thin paste.
- Spread the melted peanut butter sauce into a container lined with parchment paper or into chocolate chip shaped candy molds.
- Place in the freezer, and freeze until solid. Then remove and pop out of the molds or use a knife to cut the frozen peanut butter mixture into large or mini peanut butter chip pieces.
- Store in an airtight container in the freezer until you are ready to eat the chips or add them to cookies or other desserts. Leftovers should keep for up to four months.
Vegan Peanut Butter Chips
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup coconut oil or cacao butter (50g)
- 1/2 cup peanut flour (40g) or 1/4 cup peanut butter
- 1 tbsp pure maple syrup (15g) or liquid stevia drops to taste
Instructions
- *Use cacao butter for peanut butter baking chips. The coconut oil version works well for topping ice cream, stirring into no bake desserts, or eating straight from the freezer.
- 1. If coconut oil or cacao butter is not already in liquid form, gently heat for a few seconds in the microwave or in a small saucepan on the stove top until melted. Measure the 1/4 cup after melting.
- 2. Whisk the peanut flour or peanut butter, melted oil or butter, and sweetener in a cereal size bowl until smooth.
- 3. Spread the mixture into candy molds or into any container lined with parchment paper. (For the photos and recipe video, I used this Chocolate Chip Candy Mold.)
- 4. Freeze until solid. Then remove and pop out of the molds, or use a knife to cut into peanut butter chip sized pieces.
- 5. Store the homemade vegan peanut butter chips in a covered container in the freezer until ready to use. Frozen, they should keep for up to four months.
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Notes
Ways to use homemade peanut butter chips
Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies or Keto Peanut Butter Cookies
I should have known you would have a recipe for what I needed. This took some digging, I was putting ‘vegan peanut butter chips recipe’ into google, but you were not coming up right away , but when i added mold candy, it came up! You always have wonderful recipes, excited to try this one. Making a variety of homemade candy as the thank you gift for my daughter’s fifth birthday. They will all be pigs, will send you a photo once they are complete.
So cute!!
Do you think coconut butter could be used in place of cocoa butter/coconut oil??
Hi! I know this post is super duper old, but I ran across it while trying desperately to find some vegan PB chips that would hold their shape in cookies and THESE ARE THE ONE!! Stupidly easy to make, and they stood up to baking in big chunky Levain style cookies (aka these were in the oven for a good long time). They maintained their shape and were nice and soft and not just little melted pockets in my cookies! I made them with PB2, but will try another small batch with regular peanut butter and see how they go. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS RECIPE! I feel like I’d be able to adapt it for lots of other types of chips, and you probably don’t get enough recognition for what a great, simple recipe this is! Thank you!
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Hi, why does the chips (with cocoa butter and homemade peanut butter) melt right away after taking them out the freezer? Can someone give me gram measurements for those 2 ingredients? Thanks. They’ve been freezing for 8 hours and they melt right away after taking them out.
This recipe is Excellent! I used Cocoa Butter and it was perfect.
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I am definitely making these!! The ones from the store are horrible! They’re nothing but corn syrup and artificial ingredients. I’m wondering if peanut butter protein powder can be used? That would make them even healthier. Thank you!
We don’t see why not! If you use sweetened, you might need less maple syrup (replace it with coconut oil). Definitely be sure to let us know if you try.