Paul A Young
The Art of Chocolate Making
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Learn chocolate making and the art of creating handmade chocolates with the UK’s top chocolatier, Paul A Young.
Have you always wanted to learn the wonderful skill of tempering chocolate like a pro chocolatier? Are you drooling at the idea of the perfect sea salted caramel truffle? This course will cover all the skills, troubleshooting and practise that you need to be able to achieve stunning results.
Paul has a reputation as an incredibly creative flavour alchemist who often develops flavour combinations that are original, experimental, sometimes daring, yet always perfectly balanced. During this course, Paul will share the skills he has gained during his chocolate career, even letting you in on his secret recipe – his multi-award winning sea salted caramel truffle.
Paul will give you the tools you need to create beautiful handmade chocolates at home. You will be taken on a whirlwind tour of the world of chocolate, covering everything from its history right through to creating and decorating truffles at a professional standard. During this course you will cover tempering, cream and water ganaches, moulding, rolling the perfect truffles, hand enrobing, shelling, decoration techniques, bars and barks, layering and perfecting caramel. Call yourself a chocoholic? It’s time to prove it.
“I’m as in love with chocolate making as I was when I made my first truffle. I believe that handmade chocolates should be just that – hand made from beginning to end without the use of artificial flavours, stabilisers and preservatives. This allows the ingredients to really shine and gives the artist license to get creative with their flavours and ideas” – Paul A Young
You'll learn:
- how to temper chocolate
- making truffles and chocolate ganache
- creating moulded chocolates
- making fruit, alcohol and caramel fillings
- presenting and packaging chocolates
You'll need:
- A stainless steel plastic handled scraper (Paul uses a wallpaper scraper from a DIY store)
- Palette knife
- Heat gun/hairdryer
- Microfibre cloth/cotton wool
- Chocolate dipping tool (not essential)
- A solid plastic chocolate mould (not the flexible silicone variety)
Additional and optional equipment:
- Decoration transfer sheets
- Baking paper for making piping bags
- Acetate sheets for capping off moulded chocolates
- Digital thermometer
The course includes:
- 4 on-demand video lessons - presented by Paul A. Young
- lifetime access to the video, notes and interactive class
- flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like
- downloadable lesson notes
- practical (optional) chocolate making assignments
- access on your mobile, PC, Mac or laptop
- small interactive online classroom chat online to students from around the world
Time to complete this chocolate making course:
Every student is different but in general we think the whole course will take around 14 hours 30 minutes to complete including:
- Video lesson: 3 hours 30 minutes in total
- Notes: at least 15 minutes per lesson
- Assignment: at least 2 hours per lesson
- Interactive classroom time: 15 minutes per lesson
- Tutor feedback review (Expert level): 15 minutes per assignment
Ready to get started?
Just add the course to your basket above - choose the 'Expert' option for personal feedback from Paul on your handmade chocolates.
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Lessons
What You’ll Learn
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While tempering chocolate is often looked at as a daunting task, Paul aims to demystify this process – once you have cracked this technique, the creative opportunities of chocolate are endless.
During this lesson Paul will introduce you to the basics of chocolate. He will go into detail on how chocolate is made, its origins, uses and how to taste chocolate to identify the complexities of its flavor and texture.
You will then be guided through the process of tempering chocolate using both the seeding and tabletop method. You will cover all the skills required to create stunning chocolate bars, and also be shown frequent mistakes made by other chocolatiers and how to rectify them.
During this lesson you will learn to flavour and perfect cream and water based ganaches. You will then be led through creating hand rolled truffles, enrobing the truffles with tempered chocolate and decorating techniques.
Using a polycarbonate chocolate mould, Paul will demonstrate how you can create thin chocolate shells with a stunning shiny finish. You will learn how to fill and decorate your shells, and how to cap and seal your chocolates to a professional standard.
You will also be led through creating alcohol and fruit ganaches, and be let into the secret of how Paul makes his award-winning sea salted caramel filling.
In this lesson, you will learn to create fruit-based reductions to layer into filled chocolates. You will be shown how you can create crunch and texture layers in moulded chocolates, and how you can decorate, present and package your chocolates. This is where you can use your own artistic creativity to push boundaries and make your chocolates your own.
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Our online classroom is designed to help you learn from experts in a collaborative, social environment alongside a small group of learners.
Each lesson combines expert-led videos with optional assignments, giving you the opportunity to apply what you’ve learned and share your work with others. You can take part in ongoing discussions, ask questions, exchange feedback, and learn from a community of like-minded people from around the world.
By learning together in a small, supportive group, you benefit not only from expert guidance but also from shared ideas, perspectives, and experiences—helping you stay engaged and retain what you learn.
You can start your course at any time within 12 months of purchase. Once you begin, you’ll have lifetime access, so you can revisit lesson videos and notes whenever you like.
Courses are designed to fit around your schedule, allowing you to learn at your own pace. Each lesson video is typically 30–40 minutes, and we recommend around an hour for each assignment.
Both Peer and Expert options give you full access to the course content, including lesson videos, downloadable notes, assignments, and a collaborative online classroom with up to 20 learners. You’ll also have lifetime access to revisit the material at any time.
The Expert option includes everything in Peer, plus personalised assignment feedback, direct messaging with your expert tutor, and a certificate of completion.
With the Expert option, you can interact directly with your tutor throughout the course. You’ll typically have one week per lesson to ask questions and receive feedback on your assignments, with as much interaction as you need during that time.
Your tutor access begins when you enter the classroom and follows the course schedule (for example, a four-lesson course usually runs over four weeks). If you need more time or support, our team is here to help.
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