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Product Review: KitKat Otona no Amasa, Shinshu Apple, Wa Ichigo, Ice Cream, Strawberry Cheesecake & Raspberry

Yuki by Yuki
26 June 2024
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Product Review: KitKat Otona no Amasa, Shinshu Apple, Wa Ichigo, Ice Cream, Strawberry Cheesecake & Raspberry

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Recently I purchased six more Japanese KitKat flavours that I’ve been wanting to try for a little while. Here are six previous ones I reviewed. There are more flavours available, but I bought: Otona no Amasa, Shinshu Apple, Wa Ichigo, Ice Cream, Strawberry Cheesecake and Raspberry.

Nestlé – KitKat Otona no Amasa
Price: ± €3,- per pack of 13

This KitKat smelled strongly of cocoa, which you notice as soon as you open the package. The name ‘Otona no Amasa’ means ‘Sweetness for Adults’, which refers to this KitKat being a lot less sweet than most other flavours. It had a bit of a bitter taste, like dark chocolate normally does. Personally I love this flavour, it’s bitter but not too bitter.

Nestlé – KitKat Shinshu Apple
Price: ± €12,- per pack of 12

Another strong smelling KitKat, this one smelled like artificial apple, like Haribo sour apple rings. Initially I didn’t dislike this KitKat flavour, but as I kept chewing I definitely didn’t like the flavour. The milk chocolate combined with artificial apple flavour is definitely not my kind of snack, maybe it’d be better if it were white chocolate instead of milk.

Nestlé – KitKat Wa Ichigo
Price: ± €6,- per pack of 3

One of the few KitKats that didn’t have a strong scent to it, or a strong flavour, but I definitely liked this one. It’s not an overly sweet KitKat, nor does it have the distinct sour flavour that the normal strawberry KitKat has, but I liked the subtlety of the strawberry flavour of this one.

Nestlé – KitKat Ice Cream
Price: ± €3,- per pack of 13

When you open this one the smell is pretty strong, it reminded me of pastry cream, whipped cream and vanilla. As the packaging and instructions imply: these KitKats can and should be baked before consuming. Baking them can be a bit tricky to do as you have to find out what works best with your oven. Make sure not to preheat your oven and to place them on a baking tray lined with aluminium foil. For me the best way turned out to be to bake them for 8 to 9 minutes, setting my oven at 200 degrees Celsius. After which I took out the tray, let them cool and then took them off the aluminium foil to try them.

The flavour, once baked, was very nice, but it didn’t quite remind me of ice cream. This KitKat mainly tasted like a crumbly and crunchy vanilla cookie. It is a pretty sweet KitKat, but I didn’t think the flavour was too sweet.

Nestlé – KitKat Strawberry Cheesecake
Price: ± €12,- per pack of 12

Though this one smells like artificial strawberry it doesn’t have a very strong strawberry flavour. This one tasted a little tangy, with a faint strawberry flavour. I didn’t think it was very tasty but it didn’t taste bad either. I personally prefer plain white chocolate over this flavour of KitKat.

Nestlé – KitKat Raspberry
Price: ± €6,- per pack of 12

This KitKat has a pretty strong perfume-y smell to it, but it also smells like artificial raspberry. There’s a strong sour flavour to it, just like the strawberry KitKat I reviewed previously, and it tastes like artificial raspberry with white chocolate.

All of these KitKat flavours were interesting in their own way, though some didn’t taste exactly like I expected them to. If you don’t want to buy these in bulk, because you might not like the flavour, there are quite a few webstores that offer one or two instead.

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Writer for AVO Magazine. I write movie, anime and candy (kit) reviews for AVO Magazine and every now and then something that doesn't fall into those categories. On top of that I have a passion for creative baking. Curious? https://www.muchmunchies.com/

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