A popular TikTok creator has sparked a wave of culinary curiosity by successfully recreating the beloved Terry's Chocolate Orange using real orange segments, offering a fresh twist on the classic treat.
The Viral Kitchen Experiment
Known online as paigebakedthat, the content creator with a combined following of 47,000 shared her innovative process in a detailed video. She was inspired by the classic chocolate bar's form, pondering what it would be like if it were made with actual fruit. "When I saw the Terry's bar I immediately thought, what if a Terry's Chocolate Orange bar was made with real orange," she explained in the clip, which is part of her series making "things we wish existed".
Her method was meticulous. After peeling an orange and removing the pith, she used a shop-bought Terry's Chocolate Orange bar as a template, carefully counting its segments to match the number of real fruit pieces. She then melted the orange-flavoured chocolate from the bar, thinned it slightly with oil, and individually coated each citrus segment.
A Fiddly But Rewarding Build
"This had to be my favourite part, it was so fiddly but well worth it," Paige commented as she assembled the chocolate-dipped segments into the bar's distinctive shape. She preserved the front pieces bearing the Terry's logo from the original bar and attached them to her creation. After securing everything with extra melted chocolate and allowing it to set in the fridge, her unique real orange chocolate orange was complete.
When asked about the taste, the creator simply stated, "I really like it... personally." The video, posted on January 8, 2026, quickly attracted significant attention and a lively debate in the comments section.
The Great Citrus Debate
The innovation wasn't the only talking point. Viewers passionately disagreed over the type of fruit used in the video. One commenter insisted, "That's NOT an orange. That's a tangerine, mandarin, clementine... but that is not an orange." Paige responded with an orange emoji, but the commenter clarified that while related, oranges and tangerines are distinct fruits.
This observation is technically correct according to sources like Healthline, which notes that tangerines, mandarins, and clementines are separate fruits within the broader citrus family, not varieties of orange.
The experiment adds a new chapter to the long history of Terry's Chocolate Orange. The iconic treat was first produced in York in 1932. Production later moved to various European sites before being centralised in a factory in Strasbourg, France, in 2018. Interestingly, the company initially sold a chocolate apple before the orange's launch, and even trialled a chocolate lemon for three years from 1979.
