How to make homemade baking chips (like butterscotch or peanut butter chips)?

grill_gus

I want to bake some cookies with baking chips and I'm trying to figure out how I could make my own, mostly to keep a more natural ingredient profile. I'm not looking to make anything "healthy", or vegan or exclude sugar or anything. Toll house butterscotch chips have, for example: SUGAR, PALM KERNEL OIL, MILK, NONFAT MILK, 2% OR LESS OF HYDROGENATED PALM OIL, SOY LECITHIN, BUTTER, CARAMEL COLOR, NATURAL FLAVOR, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SUNFLOWER...

Originally asked by Grytkonst on Stack Exchange (cooking) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Your main challenge with making chips at home is technology, not recipe. All the ingredients you listed above are natural (with the exception of artificial flavor but that's not a problem to replace), you can find lecithin powder online and in health food stores. Getting the balance of the ingredients right so your consistency and flavor is what you're aiming for will likely take some trial and error, it's making the chips out of it that's tricky. Peanut butter chips are designed to soften and melt at a similar temperature to chocolate chips, which fully melt around 115°F/45°C, which is pretty warm to work with but not impossible. The machines that make chips deposit a small amount onto a...

Full answer by GdD: https://cooking.stackexchange.com/a/133139 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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