Paul A Young Archives

Chocolate Ecstasy Tours fun online chocolate tasting events.

An exciting collection for the one you love.

Cream teas and Christmas previews

Bean to bar chocolate made from the whole bean.

A brownie? With Marmite?

We learn how to make award winning chocolates.

An Easter treat from Paul A Young

A Valentine's assortment from Paul A Young

Made with chipotle chilli, muscovado and maldon salt.

Mince pies topped with a layer of brownie.

Paul A Young opens a pop-up shop.

Paul A Young collaborates with Cleo Rocos on this tequila truffle.

A dark chocolate bar with pieces of sourdough bread.

A very strange evening of whisky and chocolate.

An Easter Egg Hunt Kit of the finest quality.

A new selection from one of our favourite chocolatiers.

A six course dinner in celebration of Chocolate Week.

Layers of blackcurrant and salted caramel in beautifully finished dark chocolate shells.

Paul A. Young is back with another new creation, but has he managed to capture the essence of a bakewell tart?

A childhood favourite brought back to life in truffle form by the amazing Paul A. Young.

Simple, sweet and cute hand painted chocolate frogs from Paul A. Young.

A look at Paul A. Young's new flagship central London store which opens today.

A hand painted dome of 64% Valrhona Madagascan chocolate. Inside, there’s a layer of pistachio flavoured marshmallow, with a second layer of lemon thyme caramel on top.

There's no question in my mind that this is the best brownie in the world. If you don't manage to get hold of one between now and Easter, then you're missing out.

Time for more Valentine’s chocolates, this time from the always awesome Paul A. Young. As you’d expect from Paul, everything looks amazing, so I just thought I’d show you lots of pretty pictures.

As a chocolate blogger, the only thing more satisfying than the postman knocking on your door with a package full of chocolate, is when that package has a “Paul A. Young Fine Chocolates” label on it. My life has now …

Marmite and chocolate. The perfect combination. At least it was when top chocolatier Paul A. Young created his Marmite Truffles a couple of years ago. And it was even better when he created an amazing Marmite XO bar last year. …

This is one of Paul A. Young’s latest creations. It was thrust into my hand at the recent Taste of London event in Regents Park, and also one of the samples on offer at Jennifer Earle’s Chocs & Tunes tasting …

We were lucky enough to be invited along to the launch of a collaboration between Paul A. Young and the Rare Tea Company’s Henrietta Lovell on Tuesday evening. After being plied with drink (a cocktail made from gin infused with …

I’ve known this bar was coming for a couple of months and I’ve sat and waited patiently for it to appear. Today it finally arrived, and I think my life may be complete. Yes, this is what happens when you …

Ask me to list my favourite chocolates of all time (which people do all too frequently), and right up at the top of that list are Paul A. Young’s sea salted caramels. We saw quite a craze for sea salted …

I happened to be in Islington the other day, and as I had a birthday present or two to buy, I thought I’d visit Paul A. Young’s shop and check out what he’s been up to lately. With a constantly …

Some say that Paul A. Young produces the best chocolate brownies in London. (Crikey, I sound like Jeremy Clarkson introducing the Stig!). Having thoroughly enjoyed Thornton’s Mini Brownies, I was pleasantly surprised to find one of Paul’s brownies in my …

The final offering from the Chocablog raid on Paul A. Young’s shop in Islington, this pavé is made from 64% Ecuadorean cocoa dark chocolate. Add to that the ususal suspects (soya lecitihin, a little vanill, cocoa butter) and Chinese Stem …

Like my fellow Chocabloke, I arrived home after our field trip to Islington with a small box of truffles and ganaches and three mini-slabs. A Dom mentioned, we didn’t get a comprehensive list of what we had been given (poor …

Simon and I each took home a small selection of samples from our recent trip to see Paul A. Young. My haul consisted of three small bars and a small box of truffles. The bars are similar in size to …

Simon and I celebrated Chocablog’s third birthday on Tuesday by visiting one of the UK’s top chocolatiers in his Islington shop. Paul A. Young started out as a pastry chef but now has two shops in London and plans to …