A guest recipe for Chocolate Orange Truffles by chocolatier Paul A Young.
Updated 2026 · The chocolate class pictures originally part of this post are linked below.
Following on from Adventures in Chocolate, Paul A Young has published How to Make Chocolates with Lakeland.
Alongside Paul’s book, Lakeland have put together a range of chocolate making tools shown below:
The Lakeland chocolate making range includes:
- Marble slab – for tempering chocolate
- Triangular scraper for spreading chocolate and shaving curls
- Silicone moulds to easily push out chocolate shapes
- Thermospatula for testing chocolate temperature – the digital thermometer is built in
- Double boiler or bain-marie for melting chocolate – my favourite method.
If you’d like a taste of Paul A Young’s chocolate treats then for a limited time only, as well as his Soho shop, you can indulge in his Chocolate Afternoon Tea at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London.
I also attended a Chocolate Truffle Making Workshop with Paul A Young, which you can read about separately. Making chocolate truffles is very easy and they make fantastic homemade gifts. As you will see, if you read, it is a messy business but the results are worth it!
Chocolate Orange Truffles
Ingredients
- 250 g 72% or above dark chocolate
- 125 mls unpasteurized orange juice or home squeezed
- 150 g caster sugar (superfine baking sugar)
- The zest of 1 orange
- Tempered chocolate & cocoa powder to finish
Instructions
- Chop the dark chocolate into small pieces and place into a bowl.
- Add the orange juice, sugar, and orange zest to a saucepan and bring to the simmer for one minute.
- Pour on to the chocolate and whisk well until smooth.
- Place into a food container and allow to cool, then refrigerate for 4 hours.
Notes
Store in a cool, dark place, away from sunlight and strong odours.
They will last seven days at room temperature
With thanks to Lakeland and Paul A Young for supplying sample products.
For another gift-able homemade chocolates recipe, don’t miss a related guest recipe, Homemade Chocolate Bars With Dried Fruit, from Clean Cakes by Henrietta Inman.
Chocolate and Orange is just my favourite combination – these look delicious – I’m a tad scared about tempering chocolate though!
Nothing to be scared of – just take it nice and slow!
Love it Sarah! Thumb up 🙂
This was such a fun event, although I bit my tongue to avoid showing my disappointment that it was chocolate and stilton truffles we were making that evening. Blue Cheese just creeps me out, but my co-workers loved biting into them the next day! I much prefer the chocolate orange truffles you’ve shared here. Yum!
Yes the blue cheese was something of a love-hate combo. Myself I didn’t think it tasted strongly enough but even so I definitely prefer chocolate orange 🙂