The 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.

I’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.

I 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.

So 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.