Homemade Choc. Chips/Chunks

This recipe is compliments of The Heavenly Homemakers website. I use these to make a creamy chocolate frosting that I'll be posting next...

I used to be a huge chocolate nut. To be honest these chocolate chips really don't compare to the milk chocolate chips that you buy from the store. But.....they do make some wonderful creamy frosting for a special occasion birthday cake!! It's easy to make, and you know what's in them.....

Ingredients

1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/2 cup rapadura
1 cup butter or coconut oil
1 T vanilla


Directions
Place the cocoa, rapadura and butter (or coconut oil) into a quart sized jar.

Fill a small saucepan with two or three inches of water. Place the jar into the saucepan. Turn the heat on med/high to begin melting the butter.

Stir often. It takes 10-15 minutes for the butter to melt fully. I make sure that it's fully stirred and the butter is fully melted.

Take the jar out of the water and add the vanilla.

Pour the mixture into a 9x13 glass pan. If you are trying to get chocolate chunks to use as chocolate chips in a recipe, then use parchment paper on the bottom of the pan. If you are using it for frosting, then you don't need the parchment paper.

Refrigerate until the mixture is cold and set.

If I'm using this for frosting, I just scrape the chocolate out with a spoon and put into a bowl. If I'm actually trying to using it as chunks then I try to cut them out in chunks and pry them off of the paper.