Nakd Caffé Mocha

When I can't have something, I want it all the more. The Caffé Mocha Nakd bars aren't sold in any single supermarket, in all fairness I could have ordered a full case from the Nakd website but I wanted to try 1 - not 18!!

I've been on the hunt since Amy found one in a health shop but I've not had much luck. For the last few weeks I've had an immediate family member in an Intensive Care Unit and so it's been a continuous cycle of days with long visiting hours with literally five minute breaks to wolf down a quick bite to eat. And so Nakd bars have been a god send! My supply had taken a serious hit until what should I find in the hospital canteen? The elusive Caffé Mocha! Typical, it's literally been underneath me for the whole time.. 

The bar is gluten, wheat and dairy free, vegan and one of your 5 a day. 

Looks:

Not much different to every other Nakd bar! A little darker and almost shinier - it looks moister (vom, I hate that word!) than some of the other flavours. 

Smell:

100% strong coffee baby! Although this didn't get my hopes up too much, I've been lead on by strong coffee scented edibles in the past only to have my heart broken by the poor flavour. 

Taste:

If you've read Amy's review you'll know she wasn't that impressed, I do agree somewhat with her review - it isn't as sweet as other bars but I also disagree.

As a black coffee fan I'm always annoyed when products focus on the milky sweeter coffee variations. I suppose it's to reach a wider audience, but why would someone buy coffee flavoured food if they aren't after the taste of coffee? Anyway, I understand this is Mocha flavoured, so is chocolate/cocoa and coffee but pleasingly (for me) the strong rich coffee flavour is predominant and the cocoa, while noticeable plays second fiddle.

The texture is the same as every other non-Crunch Nakd bar but the strong coffee and cocoa flavours overwhelm the signature date/nut/raisin flavour that makes the base of all the other bars. I think this is probably what Amy found lacking, but I enjoyed the more authentic stronger tastes.

Delicious - I've cleared the canteen out!! 

8/10 

Kit Kat Mocha - Limited Edition

Chocolate and coffee are in the top ten of my favourite things, coffee flavoured chocolate has the potential to be but it often falls short. I was looking forward to seeing how the Kit Kat Mocha fared. 

I expected it to look a little different, recent new flavours of Kit Kat such as the cookies and cream and toffee have visibly been different from the standard but this looked normal. Ignore the greasy look to the chocolate, I read I shouldn't be refrigerating chocolate if I want to taste it properly and my house must be warm today so it had started to melt a little, the chocolate was just the same as normal. 

To look at, it might be easy to mistake for milk chocolate, but that's it. I'd only ripped a small square of the wrapper when the coffee scent practically smacked me in the face! It's a very strong coffee with no real hint of chocolate, so so far so good.

Taking a bite I was impressed too, at first it tasted just as it smelt - nice and strong but sadly the coffee gave way to the familiar milk chocolate. Don't get me wrong this was absolutely delicious and as long as Kit Kat sell the mocha flavour for is as long as I'll buy it over the others, but it would be a solid 8 if the coffee didn't taper away to a plain milk chocolate.

Rating 7/10