Nestle launches new style KitKats in three different flavours
NESTLE has launched a new-style KitKat sharing bar in three flavours, sending fans wild.
The new product is a bar of KitKat pieces that sees crispy wafer fingers topped with flavoured fillings and coated in chocolate.
Shoppers have been sharing pictures of the bars online with the flavours spotted including double chocolate, salted caramel and hazelnut.
The double chocolate bars feature a cocoa-flavoured filling, covered with thick, milk and dark chocolate marbled swirls.
Salted caramel bars see a filling covered in thick caramel flavour milk chocolate and marbled swirls, while the hazelnut-filled bars are covered in thick, milk and dark chocolate marbled swirls.
The bars are perfect for sharing with pieces easily broken off.
And fans of Nestle’s KitKat have been loving what they see.
One said: “That looks absolutely banging.”
Another added: “Wow I love my KitKat, that looks lovely to be fair.”
A third said: “I need them all.”
Stephanie Scales, marketing manager for KitKat at Nestlé UK & Ireland, said: “In today’s non-stop world, it’s far too easy to let the evenings disappear in a blur. We want KitKat fans to hit that pause button and really unwind at the end of the day… and what better way to do that than by catching up with your favourite people and sharing a delicious treat?
“KitKat’s always been about those feel-good breaks and now with sharing bars, we’re making it even easier to disconnect and reclaim your evenings.”
The KitKat bars have been found in branches of Tesco, where they were being sold for £1.50 each.
But from Wednesday January 29 they will be available at retailers nationwide.
Nestle has launched several new KitKat products recently, including a hazelnut flavoured four-finger bar spotted in supermarket Sainsbury’s.
It also launched a classic caramel bar, which hit shelves in 2023.
Other classic KitKat flavours include white chocolate, orange, dark mint and cookies and cream.
Meanwhile KitKat Crunchy bars are available in flavours including peanut butter, double chocolate and white chocolate.
This time last year Nestle also revealed the KitKat 70% dark chocolate bar had returned to shelves with a different recipe.
The white chocolate and Biscoff flavour KitKat chunky also made a limited return to shelves last year, to shoppers’ delight.
And 2023 also saw a mint cookies and cream KitKat available at B&M stores for a limited time.
The variety had previously only been available in Australia.
Chocolate lovers regularly spot new, limited edition or imported flavours on shelves.
At the end of last year Cadbury launched a new Twirl bar described by shoppers as “pure bliss”.
The Breakaway Cookie Dough X Twirl Bar featured layers of crunchy biscuit pieces and a chewy cookie dough filling all encased in Cadbury’s classic smooth milk chocolate.
A new Rowntree’s chocolate bar also had shoppers excited in December.
The Rowntree Jellytastic Mini Egg Bar contained pieces of fruit flavoured jelly sweets.
In the same month shoppers rushed to B&M to buy an ultra-rare pink lemonade flavoured Cadbury chocolate bar.
B&M shoppers also found an Aero Milky Bar – which combined bubbly Aero and white Milky Bar in one chocolate.
Last year also saw Nestle’s White Crunch bars appear on shelves in Home Bargains for just £1.39.
It came as a shock to customers as the sweet treat, which was first launched in 1965, was axed from production in 2018.
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Go own brand – if you’re not too fussed about flavour and just want to supplant your chocolate cravings, you’ll save by going for the supermarket’s own brand bars.
Shop around – if you’ve spotted your favourite variety at the supermarket, make sure you check if it’s cheaper elsewhere.
Websites like Trolley.co.uk let you compare prices on products across all the major chains to see if you’re getting the best deal.
Look out for yellow stickers – supermarket staff put yellow, and sometimes orange and red, stickers on to products to show they’ve been reduced.
They usually do this if the product is coming to the end of its best-before date or the packaging is slightly damaged.
Buy bigger bars – most of the time, but not always, chocolate is cheaper per 100g the larger the bar.
So if you’ve got the appetite, and you were going to buy a hefty amount of chocolate anyway, you might as well go bigger.
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