Master chocolatier Paul A Young demonstrates the art of making truffles and an opportunity to win his new Lakeland book How to Make Chocolates.
It’s a hard life trucking into town on the tube for a Pinterest Chocolate Event. At least that’s what I tell myself.
Tucked into a basement, Mr Chocolate himself showed us how to make his freakish sounding (but oh so good) stilton chocolate truffles – although the recipe here I have for you is for orange ones so do bear with me.
Following on from his “Adventures in Chocolate” book Paul A Young has just published another book How to Make Chocolates with Lakeland.
As well as his book, Lakeland have pulled together a stack of chocolate making paraphrenalia as shown below:
Marble Slab £19.99 | Silicone Chocolate Box Mould £5.29
How to Make Chocolates Book by Paul A Young £4.99 | Chocolate Scraper £7.99
Thermospatula £14.99 |Bain Marie Double Boiler £15.99
You can see the marble chocolate slab in action here – I won’t deny it weighs a ton but to get your tempered chocolate cooling down nicely it’s just the job.
We had as you can see, a merry old time rolling our own.
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 Inspired Afternoon Tea at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London. But if that’s out of reach then do enter my giveaway to win one of his books below!
- 250g 72% or above dark chocolate
- 125mls unpasteurized orange juice or home squeezed
- 150g unrefined golden caster sugar
- The zest of 1 orange
- Tempered chocolate & cocoa powder to finish
- 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.
How long will my truffles last?
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 and book prizes.
Beautiful truffles! Ever so tempting…
Cheers,
Rosa
Thank you Rosa – I could dip right in and grab one.
that first picture looks gorgeous sarah. I love the background you have used. And chocolate and orange..match made in heaven for sure 🙂
It is actually extracted from the book – I wish I could take credit!
Reinvent the Bounty and I’ll be queuing outside Paul’s shops each morning!
Someone did that on their blog in past few weeks… racking my brains who it was now!
I loved Paul’s talk, what a great guy and he loves what he does, and his chocolates are incredible. Who wouldn’t love working with amazing chocolate all day?!
I know… I imagine you get used to the smell though because when I first arrived at Bournville Art College in Birmingham near Cadbury’s factory I noticed the smell of chocolate wafting through the air daily but not so much later on!
It has to be champagne truffles
That was such a fun evening. I loved those Stilton truffles.
Would you make them at home? I might nearer Christmas.
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 🙂
Love it Sarah! Thumb up 🙂
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!
Call me boring, but I love his salted caramel – you just can’t improve on perfection!
A best seller for a reason!
Mmm Viennese truffles
these truffles look scrumptious! [love that word!!] – a chocoholics dream 🙂
Chocolate and peanut butter which is one of my favourite combinations
Wow! Chocolate and bleu cheese? Sounds intriguing. I’ve done chocolate + parmesan.
blue cheese yuk choc orange yum!
Love the idea of using citrus liquids instead of cream mmm now to really like dark chocolate!!
This sounds amazing! I love Paul, his ethics and most importantly… his chocolate! I’m glad I live too far out of London to try his wares… although now there may not be any excuses left ; )
I love the sound of the orange truffles, not sure about the stilton though. I’d love some mint chip truffles!
I think a battenburg truffle would be cute.
Wow loving this blog and of course CHOCOLATE! X
I’d love a battenburg truffle 😀