Kit Kat Chunky Nibbler - Extra Chocolate

A couple of weeks ago I reviewed the Kit Kat Stirred Vanilla and I wondered if they were an import or a new UK release. It turns out it was one of two new bars just for us, the second is the Kit Kat Chunky Nibbler - Extra Chocolate.

It's pretty obvious what the vanilla bar would be, but extra chocolate wasn't quite as clear cut. We've had bars with cream inside or it could have been different flavoured wafers.. there were a number of different ways Nestlé could have made this with extra chocolate. 

Maybe it was my imagination, but it seemed to smell more strongly of chocolate but other than that it looked like a standard Kit Kat Chunky. 

If you don't eat many Kit Kat Chunkys you'd be forgiven for not realising what's different. According to the wrapper the extra chocolate is just literally that - extra chocolate and less wafers. To be exact, 80% chocolate compared to 68% in the standard. 

Well, I was a bit disappointed. What difference is a smidgen more chocolate? Well 3g worth of weight, 20 odd calories and if you're a chocaholic like me, the contents of my purse!! 

The chocolate is the exact same flavour but I never noticed before how much of the taste comes from the wafers. This has a serious chocolate hit, I can't so much taste the wafers as much as I can feel them but the chocolate has a creamy longer lasting flavour. It's actually too thick to snap apart except for in the middle and that thickness means it has a ridiculously satisfying bite. 

It was like winning the Kit Kat lottery and getting a solid chocolate finger, but still with the crunchy wafers, which let's be honest you do want in a Kit Kat - otherwise you'd just buy a normal chocolate bar right?

This will be a hit with chocolate addicts like myself, but it all comes down to preference. If the wafers are your thing, I wouldn't bother. I think I prefer it to the normal Kit Kat Chunkys!

7/10

Kit Kat Extra Creamy

I had a conversation with @eveningtreats on Twitter a couple of weeks ago about these Kit Kat Chunkys. We'd both spotted them with the 'NEW extra creamy!' label on them but were a bit confused - we hadn't heard anything about a new Kit Kat and Google was no help so I decided to grab one the next time I saw it. 

One thing that threw us both was that the front of the wrapper is in English, so surely these are made for the UK? But looks are deceiving and the packet is confusing! Some parts are English - the new label, the parts about UTZ certified, cocoa farmers, contact information and all the trademarks but the rest is Polish. So from what I can gather this isn't a new bar for the UK but one made for Poland - just with half the wrapper in English? 

Anyway it looked and smelt the same, I expected for an extra creamy maybe a slightly little more chocolate in between the wafers but there didn't seem to be.

The chocolate itself did taste slightly creamier, I'm not a great fan of Nestle chocolate, normally I prefer Cadburys as its a bit milkier. This did seem to have a creamier, smoother flavour - nothing major though and I'm not sure if it really does or it's the power of persuasion. 

Either way I enjoyed it but it's really no different to an ordinary Kit Kat Chunky, I wouldn't go out of my way to find this specific bar but I'd buy it again. 

Rating 7/10 

Kit Kat Chunky Hazelnut Cream

Just a mini review on an older chocolate bar today, the imported Kit Kat Chunky hazelnut cream. I can't tell you too much about the bar although the front of the packet is in English the ingredients and description are in a variety of eastern European languages but I think the names pretty self explanatory.

First up the scent - it's not 'open the packet - smell immediately' strong but I could smell the hazelnuts through the chocolate shell before I snapped a section off. As with most Kit Kat Chunky bars it was sectioned into 3 little equal rectangles and to me didn't look any different from the milk chocolate version. I'm not too sure if I've tried a Bulgarian Kit Kat before but I didn't notice any difference in the standard and taste of the chocolate and wafers either. 

The hazelnut cream is in a layer on top of the wafers and is quite deceiving in my photo - it didn't seem I had that much in mine and looking online every other bar I've seen snapped looks to have more of the cream filling too so it seems I got a little short changed on my filling! The hazelnut flavour was apparent from first bite though so no worries, again it's not overpowering but does make a difference. I'm not sure if there is supposed to be a cream flavour but if there was I didn't notice the taste so much as the texture. The chocolate seemed creamier and left a thicker, richer feel in my mouth. 

While I wouldn't necessarily say this is better than other flavours I've tried I did enjoy it and would happily buy again. 

Rating 7/10