How Do You Melt Chocolate Chips

All types of candy chips -- chocolate butterscotch and peanut butter -- are easy to melt in the microwave.

How do you melt chocolate chips. Semi-sweet chocolate chips follow the same procedure with the microwave on high. But because the cookie dough has firmed up around them the chips retain their shape. Put your chocolate in the bowl and put the bowl on the potsauce pan.

Microwave on High for 1 minute then stir with a spoon. Milk chocolate chips on medium-high power for one minute. Be sure to stir between each interval Yoon says.

Fill the bottom half of a double-boiler with around 1 inch 25 cm of water. Place the chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl. Stir constantly until the chocolate chips are almost completely melted then remove them from the heat.

Nuke for 3 15-second intervals and stir in between each increment of time. Chocolate chips continue to melt once you take the bowl out from the microwave. As soon as the chocolate chips begin to melt at all or immediately if you have already partially melted them with liquid begin stirring.

Stir the chocolate with a rubber spatula. Heat them incrementally in a microwave-safe bowl for the best results. Repeat as necessary stirring in between.

Put the pot on the stove with the bowl on it and turn it to a low-medium heat. If the chocolate is not mostly melted microwave at 50 power for 15-second intervals until melted. Melt chocolate either in the microwave or on the stove-top.