Chocolate Orange Truffles

Chocolate orange truffles made with Master chocolatier Paul A Young. 

It’s a hard life trucking into town on the tube for a Pinterest Chocolate Event. At least that’s what I tell myself. This was another Pinterest cooking event – see also the Naked Wedding Cakes event with Lily Vanilli.

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 

Making chocolate orange truffles with Paul A Young

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!

Print Recipe

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Chocolate Orange Truffles

Makes approx 40 to 50 truffles Recipe by Paul A Young and main truffle photo extracted with permission from Lakeland’s How to Make Chocolates

Prep Time30 minutes mins

Cook Time4 hours hrs

Total Time4 hours hrs 30 minutes mins

Course: Sweets

Servings: 40 -50

Author: Paul A Young

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

This can then be hand rolled into truffles, coated with tempered chocolate & finished with cocoa powder.

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.