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 presents.. Stirred - Vanilla

Its typical, whenever I go out looking for new snacks I can never find any. Come 4am on a Monday morning when I'm waiting to pay for the diesel in an overpriced petrol station in central London and its everywhere! Then I have to find somewhere to hide it from greedy Mr.1T until we get home and I can put it in my stash and it has to be somewhere that it won't get smashed to smithereens. Suffice to say, many of the goodies I find in my overpriced treasure trove don't make it home to be reviewed. 

I'm learning though, and I made sure to buy two of these Kit Kats! They are Kit Kat presents Stirred! - Vanilla flavour and I don't really know where they're from! The trademark is registered in S.A, which I'm assuming is South Africa, but the contact details are for right here in the U.K. So we've either got a bonus World Food review or I've managed to bag an early U.K release. I'm not complaining regardless! 

The chocolate looks no different to your bog-standard, everyday four finger Kit Kat and it had that distinctive Kit Kat smell; the usual Nestle chocolate but somehow you can almost smell the wafers too.

Inside was more of the same, no difference to be found and I hoped it wasn't a sign of things to come. At first, this was the case. Same sweet, instantly recognisable chocolate flavour with the crisp bite of the wafers. This soon gave way to a lovely vanilla after-taste. Be warned, it is rather sweet but it still manages to have a kind of creamy vanilla flavour.

 I really enjoyed it, the way I review is I'll take a piece (in this case a finger), eat it slowly and in small bites, decide what I want to write about it and then get stuck in to the rest. I had my notes all written up and put away and I ate the other three fingers like a normal person. I had to go back though as this really improves the more you eat - the vanilla flavour becomes more pronounced and the normal chocolate is less noticeable. There's nothing wrong with normal Kit Kat chocolate - OK it's not great but its Kit Kat, that vanilla is lovely though.

I'm guessing the Stirred line is a range designed to be stirred into milk or a hot drink. Unfortunately I didn't get to try this as I only had a Cherry Pepsi Max on me at the time and I don't think that would have worked too well... Still I imagine this would have been delicious with a cup of strong black coffee - my fave - or any other warm drink. 

An improvement on the original and while I'd like to rate it an 8, I noticed I've been rather stingy on the ratings lately and I can't put it higher than some of the better quality chocolates I've tried. So for that reason only it's a

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 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 

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

Limited Edition Kit Kat Toffee Treat

Another limited edition chocolate bar! I'm quite surprised there are lots of new and limited edition chocolates out now as January is usually diet season but I'm not complaining. This is Kit Kat Toffee Treat and I'd spied it in the two finger bar but held out until I could get my hands on the four finger. 

I've had quite a few toffee flavoured things recently, I suppose it is a flavour usually associated with cold and winter, or maybe it's the new 'flavour of the month' literally! 

I was quite surprised when I got to the chocolate as I expected a normal looking, Kit Kat with the flavour on the inside as with the Kit Kat caramel but the more I think about it now I realise there isn't much space in a non chunky bar for any filling. I've just had a look at the wrapper and this is actually a blend of toffee flavoured white chocolate (53%) and milk chocolate (13%). 

Texture wise, this is your ordinary Kit Kat, no nice or nasty suprises here. But the flavour is good. It's sweet - very much so even considering this is a white chocolate but it does have a lovely creamy toffee flavour. It's nice that Nestle have kept their limited editions somewhat simple, toffee, caramel, cookies and cream, compared to the craziness Cadbury have produced in the last few years! All of the new versions I've tried have been consistently good whereas Cadbury have been a bit hit and miss. This is another delicious Kit Kat, white chocolate, milk chocolate, toffee fans will love it. Dark chocolate diehards will probably find it a bit too sweet but I will definitely be buying again. 

Rating 7/10 

B And M Buys

I love B and M, I love all the random crap they sell, I love how cheap it is for things I actually need like storage boxes but I mostly love the food aisles! I always find random chocolates, biscuits or tins of food that I never see anywhere else (sometimes I think I know the reason for that) and I can't help buying things.

My first buy was the Baileys Truffle Bar.

This bar is made by Lir and it's a funny size, while it's 80g so still bigger than your usual single serving chocolate bar and a bit smaller than a normal block or slab this is really thin so it feels smaller than it is.

It looked good getting it out albeit a bit waxy but nothing out of the ordinary.

I was dissapointed in this bar, I shouldn't have expected much considering it was cheap for a 'sharing' bar but the chocolate was very basic. It tasted to me like the cheaper chocolate you get when you buy a bar with a boy band (no names) on the front or the pound shop christmas decorations. That wouldn't have really mattered if the filling was especially good, but I didn't think it was to be honest. I got the alcohol flavouring and I think once out of the whole bar I got an actual taste of something like Baileys but very underwhelming overall.

Rating 5/10

My second purchase was the Nestle Kit Kat Chunky White.

 I'm pretty sure this isn't a new bar but I'd not tried it before and I'm on a bit of a Kit Kat kick after the Kit Kat double caramel so I grabbed myself one.

This bar is back to the three chunks and the white chocolate looks identical to Nestles other white chocolates.

The bar smells very sweet and as you can see in the picture it does have quite a thick covering of white chocolate over the wafer pieces. I bit a teeny bit off the end to see what the chocolate is like alone and it tasted just like a Milky Bar. I'm guessing (and I'll look this up or if anyone knows please comment!) that this is the same chocolate used. I'm glad I tried it alone because I couldn't taste it at all once I ate it with the wafers. This surprised me as with a normal Kit Kat Chunky the wafer/choc ratio is pretty good but even with as (sickly) sweet as the white chocolate is it just doesn't stand out enough. This is a OK bar but I won't go out of my way to look for it again.

Rating 6/10

Kit Kat Chunky Double Caramel

I finally got my hands on the new Kit Kat Chunky Double Caramel, I managed to find it in a petrol station in London after coming up empty handed in every supermarket but I imagine they'll be everywhere soon.

This is a Kit Kat Chunky separated into only 2 halfs, one with smooth caramel and one  crunchy  with caramel pieces. It looks normal on opening with both sides looking the same but once you snap the pieces in half you get to see the good stuff.

In order to take a photo of the center I ended up with four sections - 2 of each filling and on first tasting I thought I preferred the crunchy caramel filling. It's your usual tasty nestle Kit Kat chocolate and wafer but the center is lovely, creamy and rich with fair sized caramel chunks. However on round 2 the smooth filling stood out, it is runny and gooey and everything you want with caramel.

Nestle have really pulled this one out of the bag. I love the idea of 2 separate bars in one and I think that will make people buy this for the novelty factor, but they've managed to put two really good flavours in it aswell, two bars infact that I would probably buy regularly, separately should they ever bring them out. I hope they do.

Rating 8/10