Kit Kat Cookies & Cream 9pcs

Japan's own Kit Kat world: instead of plain milk chocolate over wafer, this one works crushed cocoa cookie straight into a white chocolate coating — giving it a signature mottled look and a slight grit against the wafer.

Nestlé Japan, headquartered in Kobe, has built an entire flavor culture around Kit Kat here since the early 2000s — hundreds of regional and seasonal flavors, helped along by the pun on kitto katsu, "you will surely win," which made the bar a popular good-luck gift before exams. Cookies & Cream is one of the long-running regulars in that lineup, made at Nestlé's own Kasumigaura plant in Ibaraki.

Nestlé's own tip: freeze it. The coating firms up into something closer to a thin chocolate crust, with a crisper snap and a cooler, less sweet finish — how it's most often eaten in Japan during summer.

Product details

• Wafer bar with cookies-and-cream chocolate coating
• 9 pieces, net weight approx. 104g
• Ingredients: wafer, cookies & cream chocolate (sugar, soy oil, lactose (milk), whole milk powder, skimmed milk powder, cocoa butter, emulsifier (soya lecithin), lactose (milk)), wheat flour, soy oil, lactose (milk), sugar, cookie crumb, cream powder (milk), cocoa powder, yeast, cocoa mass, whole milk powder, caramel powder, emulsifier (soya lecithin), flavouring, raising agent, yeast nutrient
  
• Origin: Ibaraki, Japan

Recommended for

• A cold treat straight from the freezer
• Japan snack box or gift bag
• Anyone curious about Japan's Kit Kat flavor culture