It’s been too long since I did a proper KitKat review and many flavours have been released since my last one. Here are the six flavours I tried out this time: Caramel, Autumn Chestnut, Sachertorte, Milk Tea, Coffee Break and Ichigo Gateau Au Chocolat. Here’s what I thought of them!
Nestlé – KitKat Mini Sachertorte
Price: ±€9,- for a bag of 12
This KitKat was unique in the way that it was packages per wafer bar, rather than per two. It definitely presents as a “premium” KitKat.
The KitKat smelled like dark chocolate and it definitely had that taste to it as well. It was bitter and creamy, with an initial hint of apricot as well, which seems to grow with each bite. I think this definitely captured some of the elements of a sachertorte, mainly the dark chocolate glaze and apricot filling. The actual cake layers of a sachertorte are a bit less bitter, but I think it’d be hard to capture that all in one KitKat and still taste the different aspects separately somehow.
I liked the flavours of this KitKat, despite not being a huge apricot fan, but it is a pretty bitter KitKat. If bitter is not your thing, I wouldn’t try this one.
Nestlé – KitKat Mini Autumn Chestnut
Price: ±€9,- for a bag of 10
This Kitkat had a very distinct roasted chestnut smell to it, which I could smell as soon as I opened the package. The creamy white chocolate fit in really well with the chestnut flavour, it added to it but didn’t distract from the main flavour. I really liked this flavour, it wasn’t overpowering but definitely present.
Nestlé – KitKat Mini Coffee Break
Price: ±€8,- for a bag of 10
A coffee KitKat for your coffee break. Although I don’t like drink coffee myself, I have always enjoyed the smell of it and this KitKat definitely had a bit of a coffee smell. Coffee is also present in the flavour, but it isn’t overpowering the creamy milk chocolate. I really enjoyed this KitKat and I appreciated the choice of milk chocolate to go with the hint of bitter coffee flavour.
Nestlé – KitKat Mini Ichigo Gateau Au Chocolat
Price: ±€9,- for a bag of 10
The individual packages had several designs on them, which seemed to relate to Christmas. It was probably incorporated into the design because Christmas Cakes are often eaten around Christmas in Japan, which are often topped with strawberries.
Seeing as chocolate and strawberry are two of my favourite flavours, I just had to try this one out. As soon as I opened the packaging I could smell the strawberry flavouring, as weird as that may sound. Not surprisingly, there was a clearly present strawberry flavour to it, with even a slight sourness to it. The milk chocolate didn’t overpower the strawberry flavour at all, if anything it just fit really well with it. If I’d have to pick a favourite, this’d be it, because of the combination of the strawberry and milk chocolate flavours.
Nestlé – KitKat Mini Milk Tea
Price: ±€9,- for a bag of 10
These KitKats come in many different individual packages, each with their own message on them, such as: What a lovely day, Tea time with me, Smile, Relaxing tea time, Happy!, Lucky and Tea for break.
As soon as I opened the individual KitKat I noticed the tea smell. There was a clear tea flavour to it and the creamy white chocolate fit well with it. Overall this KitKat was sweet and creamy. It definitely fit the Milk Tea description. I enjoyed this KitKat, but it wasn’t my favourite. This is probably because I don’t enjoy tea that much either, but regardless it was nice.
Nestlé – KitKat Mini Caramel
Price: ±€8,- for a bag of 10
Immediately after opening the package I noticed a dark caramel smell. Once I bit into it did remind me of a darker caramel, it had a rich flavour and a bitterness to it. The dark chocolate probably added to this bitterness, but fit really well with the caramel flavour. I’m not always a fan of caramel in general, but I did enjoy the flavour here, perhaps because it wasn’t overly sweet and well-balanced because of the bitterness.
There wasn’t a flavour in this batch that I didn’t enjoy, but I did like the Ichigo Gateau Au Chocolat one most.
If you’re curious about these or other KitKat flavours, but don’t want to buy a whole bag, there are a lot of webshops who now sell tasting packs. These usually include randomly selected flavours of Japanese KitKats, which is a fun way to try new flavours without risking being stuck with a bag full of KitKats you don’t like.
Which KitKat flavours are your favourites? Or did you come across any you really didn’t like? Let us know!
