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Michael

Kit Kat Birthday Cake – Sweet and Delicious

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I recently reviewed the Hershey Birthday Cake bar, which I thoroughly enjoyed.  I thought it tasted a heck of a lot like Betty Crocker vanilla frosting, which flashed me back, Ratatouille-style, to a childhood love of Dunkaroos.

Kit Kat Birthday Cake

Well, Kit Kat Birthday Cake is basically that, but in Kit Kat form.  I don’t know if the coating is the exact same stuff (I think the sprinkles might be a bit crunchier), but it tastes very, very similar.

Kit Kat Birthday Cake

I already quite enjoyed it when it was just a bar, but with the addition of Kit Kat wafers?  It’s fantastic.  The wafers add a satisfying crispiness and a do a great job of offsetting the intense sweetness of the frosting-esque exterior.  It takes something tasty and cranks it up from good to great.

3.5 out of 4

Manufactured by: Hershey
Nutritional info (1 package, 42 grams): 220 calories, 12 grams of fat (7 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat), 0 mg of cholesterol, 35 mg of sodium, 27 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of fibre, 20 grams of sugar, 2 grams of protein.
Ingredients: Sugar, vegetable oil (palm oil, shea oil, sunflower oil, palm kernel oil, and/or safflower oil), skim milk, wheat flour, corn syrup solids, lactose (milk), contains 2% or less of chocolate, cornstarch, natural flavor and artificial flavor, lecithin (soy), artificial color (blue 1, blue 2 lake, red 40 lake, yellow 5, yellow 6, yellow 6 lake); PGPR, salt, yeast, carnauba wax, confectioner’s glaze, baking soda.

Michael

Hershey’s Birthday Cake – Like Betty Crocker Frosting in Bar Form

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Birthday cake flavour can be extremely hit and miss; it’s often just vanilla-flavoured sweet overload.  That’s basically what I was expecting here, so this was actually a pretty delightful surprise.

The aroma hits you as soon as you unwrap the bar: Betty Crocker frosting.  And it hits hard.

Hershey's Birthday Cake

That’s what it tastes like, too; it’s like someone took a tub of Betty Crocker vanilla frosting, mixed in some sprinkles, and then magically transformed it into a candy bar.

I actually like that flavour (a childhood spent eating Dunkaroos probably has something to do with this), so I liked this, but your enjoyment entirely depends on your tolerance for overly sweet, artificial-tasting frosting.

Hershey's Birthday Cake

The sweetness level here is intense, but in the context of the birthday cake flavour, it feels right.  It would be weird if it weren’t a throat-burning assault of sugary sweetness.  That’s the deal.  That’s what it is, and it works.

The sprinkles work too — they add a nice crunchy counterpoint to the creamy white chocolate.

3 out of 4

Manufactured by: Hershey
Nutritional info (1 bar, 39 grams): 200 calories, 11 grams of fat (7 grams of saturated fat, 0.1 grams of trans fat), 5 mg of cholesterol, 35 mg of sodium, 25 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of fibre, 22 grams of sugar, 2 grams of protein.
Ingredients: Sugars (sugar, com syrup solids, lactose, glucose), cocoa butter, milk ingredients, modifed palm oil, sunflower oil, lecithin (soy), corn starch, natural and artificial flavours, carnauba wax, beeswax, turmeric, spirulina extract, beetroot red, palm and shea oil, polyglycerol polyricinoleate.