I am a KitKat addict.
Not many people know that because I don't eat them; at least not anymore for that is the extent of my addiction. The wafer biscuit sandwiching a chocolate flavoured cream surrounded by that chocolate is just so delicious. Sweet, malty, crisp then creamy, the way your teeth sink into that coating before finding the harder surface of the wafer through which the bite easily continues.
Perfect.
For me, the two finger snack size was the one. Four fingers was too much both in terms of actual substance and more significantly for me, too sweet.
As much of a snack food junkie as I am, I don't do too much sugary sweetness; there needs to be a balance and a full on four finger KitKat lacks that balance. Of course you can alwys only eat two but that never happens. The thing with KitKat is that they aren't very good at keeping fresh. Leave half a KitKat out for too long and that delicate crisp centre turns into a soft unappealing bit of cardboard.
Thus, two fingers.
Yes, you can make your dirty jokes now.
So let me start anew.
This is a series on my KitKat tasting adventure.
At the beginning of the year my cousin went to Japan and coincidentally, during her travels there, one of the large department stores opened a special KitKat concessions store selling nothing but KitKat.
"How?"
I hear you cry.
Easy, to date there have been over 200 varieties of KitKat for sale in Japan. A lot of these are seasonal special edition flavours that are long out of production but that still leaves the new regional varieties produced each season as well as longstanding favourites.
So what will I open this series with?
What exotic flavour from a far corner of Japan am I going to start with?
None.
This is KitKat #1.
UK entry: Cookies & Cream.
As you can see, it is a classic two finger wrap and it comes from a multipack. Something that I never knew they started doing was to list the calorie count on the front. For what it's worth, I have no idea what 107 calories actually means other than well, there are that many in that KitKat.
Taking off the bright blue wrapper you get to the classic foil. This was a little alien to me as I was positive that they had stopped using this as it was never a good way of keep the biscuits crisp. In fact, I have strong memories of having KitKat bars, straight from the multipack that were, because of the foil no doubt, not in best health.
Going deeper and taking off the foil, you will spot the first real surprise; the top is a white chocolate. The bottom half is the more usual milk chocolate coating but both of these carry a surprise - they are both flavoured.
According to the wrapper, it is the chocolate coating that carries the Cookies & Cream flavouring. Indeed, in most of the Japanese varieties, the flavour is in the coating so no surprise here. What I couldn't tell on first eating is whether the two coloured coatings equates to two flavours that work together in the mouth or whether the flavour is a single Cookies & Cream in both of the coatings. I don't think that matters much as the overall flavour is good.
It is very noticeably different to a regular KitKat. If I were to eat it blind, I don't think I would've known what it was supposed to be. Rather than cookie dough, it reminded me more of a vanillary waffle and this was not helped by the white chocolate. In fact, the overall taste is of vanilla then you are hit with the typical sweetness of the white chocolate. I'm not sure I can taste any hint of Cream in there really other than the creaminess of the white chocolate coating.
Overall, it is possibly on the verge of being too sweet for me.
Eating the two fingers by themselves, before the end of the second finger, that familiar too sweet gagging was beginning to develop at the back of the throat that neccessitated rescue by a sip of tea. I wouldn't say this is better than a regular KitKat but it is an interesting diversion and the extra vanilla/malt flavour is nice.
I was told later that there were other UK flavours too, most intersting being a Hazelnut although that only came in a Chunky bar I think, so there maybe other Uk entries before I move onto the Japanese ones.
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