Despite looking exactly like a normal, unassuming kit-kat, this tastes and smells very strongly of apples…or an ester with strong appley characteristics. Perhaps the most baffling kit-kat experience yet!
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Apple Mini Kit-Kat
Thursday, March 4th, 2010American Kit Kats
Monday, February 8th, 2010
I’m quite excited to have some American Kit-Kats to try. Up until now I have only had the Japanese imports to write about but the wonderful Laurence picked these up on his travels for inclusion in this little adventure. They are miniature, individually wrapped fingers. Perhaps every so slightly shorter than the British and Japanese varieties, but taller. In fact, they are probably the same height that British Kit- Kats used to be before the great snack shrinkage spread rapidly across all biscuits and confections. You know, when ‘wagon wheels’ were as big as your head and ‘milky ways’ were brown in the middle.
These Kit-Kats come in an assorted pack of dark chocolate, milk chocolate and ‘creme’. While it’s somewhat more mainstream than the Kit-Kats I have been trying up until now, I find the monochrome look of them rather pleasing and think that the mixture gives the whole bag more of a ‘box of chocolates’ feel than ‘bag of biscuits’. The dark and milk varieties were as you would expect, although with a very slight aftertaste which perhaps exposes a slight tailoring to the American taste-bud which has been ruined (as far as chocolate is concerned) by ‘Hershey’s ‘. ‘Creme’, however, is not, as I first though, another word for white chocolate. It is much simpler than that. It appears to mean a creamy taste that is rather mild and undefined. Not bad, and they make a pretty addition to the trio.
Jasmine Tea Kit-Kat
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010This was amazing! It tastes exactly like washing down a kit kat with a cup of jasmine tea. I am in awe.
Mixed Berry Marble Pocky
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009On every level I have always found pocky much more appealing than other biscuits and these beautiful pink specimens with their love heart adorned packaging were no exception. I can never say no to a flavour of pocky I have never seen before and these don’t disappoint. Pleasingly they look exactly like the picture on the packet – something that food all too often fails to live up to – and taste smooth sweet and yogurty. Mmmm. Love in biscuit form.
Sweet Potato Kit-Kat
Monday, November 23rd, 2009The picture doesn’t really convey quite how yellow this Kit-Kat is. It’s very presence brightens up my desk. Taste-wise, it is an interesting experience. The overriding flavour is that of the wafer biscuit but there are creamy hints of sweet potato and another tangy flavour I can’t quite identify which prevents it from being too sickly. However, if I hadn’t seen the package, I’m not sure I would be able to guess what flavour it was. It put me more in mind of McVitie’s Gold biscuits than of sweet potatoes.
Brown Tea Mini Kit-Kat
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009I love tea. A lot. I’m ashamed to admit it but I really can’t get through a day without at least one cup of tea. However, I have never been a tea and biscuits sort of girl. Tea and cake, definitely, count me in, but biscuits never cross my mind while I’m waiting for the kettle to boil. That said, when I found a tea flavoured Kit-Kat, I had to try it. Upon tasting it, I am sad to say that I was disappointed. There was perhaps the faintest hint of bitter tea if you tried very very hard to taste it but otherwise it tasted exactly like a regular Kit Kat. Just as well I like regular Kit Kats then.
NOTE: Interestingly, I had a sip of water 10 minutes later and there was a faint after taste of tea.
Sweet Bean Mini Kit-Kat
Monday, November 9th, 2009I’m currently working on a red bean paste cupcake but can’t quite make a decision on the frosting. The cupcake itself is going to be a vanilla bean sponge filled with red bean paste but as for the frosting there are so many choices. Vanilla bean, red bean, dark chocolate, mango buttercream, coconut buttercream, crushed pineapple cream cheese frosting, green tea/macha . How to choose?! Perhaps the only solution is to make them all in the smallest possible batches and taste test them. One thing I have learned from this little Kit-Kat is that too much sweetness can be a bad thing. While the aftertaste is pleasantly beany , the initial flavour is cloyingly sweet with flowery undertones that I’m not too fond of. Worth trying, but I won’t miss it terribly once it has gone.
Salt Caramel Mini Kit-Kat
Monday, November 2nd, 2009I have a real weakness for anything sweet and salty from Chinese crispy seaweed to salt toffee chocolates so naturally this Kit Kat was going to be a winner and the mini size keeps the sweetness from being over powering. That said, don’t expect too much from this little biscuit. It is, after all, only a humble Kit Kat, not a Michelin starred dessert.
Apple Pretz
Monday, October 26th, 2009So I had a serious snack attack on Saturday night and broke into the Apple Pretz without taking a picture first. An empty packet is almost as good, right? The verdict is that these things are incredibly nomable and substantial. For skinny little biscuit sticks, they pack quite a satisfying carby punch. It took three sittings to eat this pouch (yes, I could have taken a picture while there were still some left but every time I reached for the camera I just ended up nibbling on some more pretz instead). They taste a lot like a caramel apple would if it had been made with dried apple rings. There is a definite appley taste, but also a salty, buttery caramely-ness to them that is a little strange in such a dry snack, but very moreish.
Cookies Kit Kat
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009While I don’t really see the need for a cookie flavoured biscuit I couldn’t say no to this Kit Kat. Mostly because it is the first one I have ever come across in a rigid cardboard box. For some reason I have always had a fondness for sweets in boxes and used to buy my smarties and fruit gums packaged that way when I could – in fact, if I am honest, I don’t even like smarties or fruit gums when they are not boxed, the same goes for malteasers. I am sad to say that I was initially disappointed by the contents of this pleasing package. The ‘fingers’ are wider than average and are individually wrapped which robs you of that wonderful feeling you get when you snap a Kit Kat in two, I especially enjoy it if I can run my thumbnail through the foil first (this is the main reason I dislike Kit Kat chunkys , however, I also think the ratio of biscuit to chocolate is unbalanced). Despite being a biscuit flavoured biscuit, they do taste markedly different from a regular Kit Kat thanks to a malty layer of ‘cookie’ that gives them a cerealy taste. All in all a tasty snack, but no where near as exciting as the adorable mini Ramune flavour Kit Kats.
Cookies Kit Kat