Kinder Bueno
Name: Kinder Bueno
Brand: Kinder
Place Purchased: London Drugs (Vancouver, BC)
Price: unknown
Size: 43 grams
Calories per package: 240
Type: Nut Cream
I'm a little confused by the name of this bar. Maybe my language skills aren't that good, but I've had a dabbling of German and took five years of Spanish. Kinder, as far as I know is Children in German. Bueno means good in Spanish. The package for this particular treat was in English and French.
All that linguistic stuff aside, candy is good in all languages. What we have here is a crisp shell filled with a hazelnut cream and covered in a very thin shell of milk chocolate. As with most candies, two pieces are better than one, so Kinder Bueno gives you two fingers. Each is further sealed inside a clear plastic sleeve to protect the crispy wafers from getting stale. The candy is basically a formed, crisp shell filled with a creamy, milky hazelnut paste and covered in a sweet and melty milk chocolate.
I know that all of the stuff in here is probably horrible for me, reading the ingredients in either language reveals copious amounts of palm kernel oil and 30% of my daily RDA of saturated fats (oddly enough no cholesterol). No matter, it's really good. Hazelnut is such a wonderful complement to milk chocolate and the tasteless wafers, I'd probably accept a hit of 100% of my saturated fat.
It's rich and creamy and the roasted flavor of the hazelnuts lingers. They were wonderful with my morning coffee. Even though they're sweet the fatty texture spreads the goodness all over allowing all the notes of the nuts to come out. The filling is a little sticky, so keep some milk or coffee nearby to cut it. I would probably buy these again if I were to take a long flight or something where I really wanted an indulgence to go with bad airplane coffee. Even though they're double packaged, these candies don't travel well, so don't throw an apple on top of them in your purse. I'm also eager to find some Kinder Eggs to try out sometime soon.
Rating - 7 out of 10
16 Comments:
Isn't "Kinder" the way people back east say "Kind of," as in "it's kinder bueno of you to offer me that?"
haha, i like that pun.
i love kinder eggs the most though. mmm, kindereggs.
there are these "new" Kinder bon-bons... (I think they had them in Switzerland for a while). They're shapped like those mini-chocolate Easter eggs. They're hazelnut cream with hazelnut pieces and a chocolate "shell". Non wafer business. It's kind of coated the way a Reese's peanut butter egg is, so I like to peel back the chocolate and have the hazelnut cream for last. Yeah... that sounds gross, huh?
I found these at a local vegetable market this weekend, of all places. As Rachael Ray would say - yum-o!
I've got to get a hold of those Kinder Eggs. I'm hoping Cost Plus carries them at the holidays.
Mmm, hazelnut.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but would these basically be Ferre Roche without the nuts?
Cause.... MMm.......Ferre Roche.
FYI:
You may want to skip the Kinder eggs; they're a milk chocolate egg-shaped shell that you break to get to a little toy that's inside. Yep, no candy filling, just the shell & a toy.
Kinder eggs... I think I remember seeing them at the Bay Cities store (deli/ convenience) in Santa Monica... they are a few yards south of the corner of Lincoln and Colorado. Not sure, though.
Here's their info:
(310) 395-8279
(310) 395-1575 (Fax)
1517 Lincoln Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Even if they don't carry the kinder eggs, they might be worth the visit for carrying some unexpected italian candies - and, of course, the sandwiches are great.
In the meantime, will you please let me know where Sainsbury’s is located on Wilshire? Mr. Anderson, please? :)
Here's a site for the bon-bons with the hazelnut filling. http://www.malincho.com/detail.asp?PRODUCT_ID=st105
this is by far the most delicious chocolate bar i have ever had. I had them for the first time in Prague and brought home about 40 of them knowing i would not find them here. MMM MMM yummy
Ferrero Rocher! That's what I was trying to think of! Yeah, no crushed nuts, just the hazelnut paste cream.
Yeah, it's kinda of a bummer that the Kinder Eggs don't have a creamy filling AND a little toy, but maybe they used to and people kept breaking their teeth on them.
I'll keep looking!
Kinder are kid-oriented chocolates from Germany... So I suppose they carry modest amounts of chocolate (cocoa) because their advertising strategy in Europe is to state that their chocolate has More milk and less cocoa (so they imply that milk is good for kids, whereas cocoa is not). In this context, the Kinder egg offers a minimum amount of chocolate. Seriously, the chocolate shell probably weighs .5 oz! hehehe
And the shell has two layers: the outer layer is milk chocolate, and the inner layer is that "milk" component that they state are so good for kids.
If you go to the Bay cities store, you will find more varieties of Kinder chocolates, that's why I'm under the impression I saw the eggs there. One of my favorites is a very tiny bar that is mainly that "milk" component (very similar to the filling in the Buenos but not as soft), combined with crunchy cereal and covered with the thinnest cocoa shell.
Ferrero Rocher has an entire hazelnut inside of each bon bon. They are also the makers of Nutella, which is the very hazelnut chocolate cream filling.
And they also own the Kinder factory since the late 90's if memory serves me.
I used to live in santa monica and they bay cities store is fab, they have great sandwiches too. My neice loves the kinder egg, its really just for the toy though.
I discovered these in Paris and brought home a ton, stored them in zip lock bags and into the freezer they went. I was able to have a Kinder treat now and again and they fared well in the freezer.
My introduction to kinder Bueno was on a Parisian Métro platform. Straight out of the vending machine. My affair continued during some time spent living in Madrid. These are sold all over, and the local stores here in this corner of NYC tend to carry stocks from Poland and Eastern Europe. Doesn't matter what language it's in, these are little bits of heaven to me. Still can't beat my ultimate favorite though: Baci.
Hazelnut and chocolate I will never refuse.
Because of Anon's comment, I just remembered that I saw kinder eggs in the south of France this summer...some other people on my trip bought them...they actually looked pretty good, for cheap european chocolate.
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