I'm sensing a KitKat (KitKat Senses)

Member Name: iamasadlittleboy

Product:	KitKat Senses
Date:	16/09/09 (22 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Taste, KitKat Brand, Hazelnut

Disadvantages: It's not a Kinder Bueno

With their being 4 big company's making chocolate bars in the UK (Cadburys, Mars, Nestle and Kinder) I always found it harder to accept Nestle as one outside of their KitKat biscuits (which have been around for years). So when the KitKat range grows (which it seems to every year or two) I like to try what's on offer, such as the White KitKats of a few years back, or the Mint KitKats. When seeing KitKat Senses on offer I decided to try this too and see if it matched up to the godliness of the original KitKats.

Regular KitKats are really simple to explain, so I'll quickly do that, they are effectively a chocolate covered wafer finger with a really high level wafer covered in the Nestle chocolate. Personally Nestle chocolate doesn't quite have the same quality as that used by Kinder or Cadbury, but it's much better than the cheap chocolate some of the other company's use on their home brand biscuits.

So up one seeing a rather triangular biscuit in the form of the KitKat sense I was intrigued, what made it a "sense" as opposed to another KitKat. Then the wrapper hit me again Hazelnut butter, the filling of the kings was in it by looking at the wrapper. This had me hook line and sinker, as a huge fan of hazelnut butter as seen in Ferrero Rocher and Kinder Bueno why the sweet nutty filling makes the chocolate even better. The wrapper also had the KitKat logo on it, which personally states quality biscuit with an ever fresh taste, the red of the wrapper keeps the KitKat identity that we are used to.

Upon opening the wrapper this looked more like a Kinder Bueno than a KitKat, as it consists of 5 chunks (the original KitKats we're smooth finger biscuits), though each chunk did have KitKat written on it...for identifying purposes...maybe. So after snapping one of the chunk off (which was actually quite easy, and mess free, knowing the mess KitKats can leave if you snap them improperly) left it ready for the taste test. The bar has quite a light chocolate feel to it with a definite hint of hazelnut, though the cream seems really thick unlike the thin runny one of the Kinder Bueno, though the tastes we're similar. The bar (again like the Bueno) has a wafer layer, though again sadly it doesn't match up here either. The part of the bar Nestle have never failed with just seems to lack that crispness of old.

For those reading that all may sound like it's a terrible failure, but it's not, the problem though it that they are competing ith one of the greatest chocolate bars on the market. The Kinder Bueno is that much better than anything else that it's hard for a similar bar to really compete. That means that despite this having a lovely taste run by the hazelnut filling and a really nice overall taste, it just seems like a little bit of a let down known what else is out there with a similar idea for the bar. Sadly when you go head to head with something and you can't quite match it it's remembered more than the similar items you're better than. On a fair balance it's a lovely chocolate bar, just eat this before you try the Bueno to save from being disappointed because if you see this on it's own qualities you'll not have any complaints at all.

Yes it's not Kinder, but it's still a KitKat and that for some will be enough, for me it's the hazelnut that sells it, though I won't be buying it unless it's on offer due to the fact I know theirs a better quality bar out there for a similar price. Also on a bar by bar analysis this is actually smaller too, though you don't need to give a finger away when sharing.

Nutritional Information per 31g bar
165 Calories
2.3g Protein
17.5g Carbohydrates
9.5g Fat

The product DOES contain Hazelnuts and MAY contain Peanut traces. It also contains Milk, Milk Powder, Soya, Wheat and E150d.

Summary: Good but far from the best