KitKat 2 Finger Chocolate Orange Biscuit Bars Multipack, 12 Pack 248.8g
Twelve of the same thing in a row is a test most bars quietly fail. Eaten every afternoon for a fortnight a plain bar stops registering; you finish it without having noticed you started. The reason to choose this box over the standard one is that a citrus note keeps announcing itself long after plain chocolate has become wallpaper, which is an argument about repetition rather than about flavour, and repetition is what a twelve-pack is for. The other thing this format does, quietly, is take chocolate orange out of December. In Britain the pairing is Christmas shorthand, a thing that appears in a stocking and has vanished by mid-January, and twelve bars bought for a week of packed lunches treat it as an ordinary flavour, which is what it has deserved to be for a long time. Very well marked by a great many buyers, and I have no argument with them. Wheat in the wafer, milk in the coating, and it is chocolate, so a warm car will beat it.
KitKat 2 Finger Chocolate Orange Biscuit Bars Multipack, in brief.
KitKat 2 Finger Chocolate Orange is the twelve-bar multipack of the two-finger wafer bar in its orange version, 248.8g to the box. Picked into the Teas.co.uk selection as the sealed-portion biscuit for lunchboxes and desk drawers rather than for the biscuit tin.
Orange oil is sharp and volatile, so it arrives before the chocolate and lifts a bar that can otherwise read one-note. Twelve sealed wrappers keep the wafer crisp, which is what you are paying for. Never dunk it.
The two-finger bar is a wafer biscuit under chocolate, and the format is the reason it has outlasted almost every rival. A wafer is mostly air held in a very thin, crisp starch lattice, which means it gives instantly under the teeth and carries far more chocolate per gram of biscuit than a baked biscuit can. It also means the whole thing eats quickly, which is exactly what a lunchbox or a mid-morning break wants. What the orange version changes is the top note rather than the structure: orange oil is sharp and volatile, so it arrives before the chocolate does and lifts a bar that can otherwise read as fairly one-note.
Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Storage notes and pairing guidance are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind The Pack
KitKat began life at Rowntree's in York as a bar for a working person's break, and the two-finger version is the original shape rather than a shrunken one. The design solves a specific problem: a bar that had to be cheap, portable, quick to eat and satisfying without being heavy. A wafer does all four things at once. It costs little, it survives a pocket, it collapses instantly under the teeth and it carries a great deal of chocolate relative to its own weight, so the bar reads rich while weighing almost nothing.
Individually wrapped multipacks add one more thing that matters more than it sounds: each bar is sealed until the moment it is opened. Wafer is the most fragile common biscuit structure there is, and it goes soft very quickly once air reaches it, because a thin starch lattice takes up moisture readily. Eleven sealed bars are still crisp while you eat the twelfth, which is exactly why this format lives in lunchboxes and desk drawers rather than in biscuit tins. The full ingredient declaration, the nutrition panel and the allergen statement are printed on the current UK pack.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our Commitment To The Planet
- The box that arrives is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe for another market.
- Twelve individual wrappers use more packaging than a single large bar would, and we would rather say that than dress it up. What they buy back is wafer that is still crisp on day twenty rather than soft on day three.
- The outer carton and the individual wrappers take different recycling routes, and those routes differ by council. Read the current UK pack and check locally.
- If portioning is not the reason you are buying, a larger single bar is lighter on packaging. Buy the multipack for the sealed portions.
Serving Notes For KitKat 2 Finger Chocolate Orange Biscuit Bars Multipack, 12 Pack 248.8g
- Water temperature: Full boil for black tea; standard brewing temperature for coffee.
- Measure: One bag per 200ml, one bar a person.
- Steep: Three minutes, medium. A long stewed brew fights the orange rather than clearing the chocolate.
- Service: A splash of milk, no sugar.
- Dunk: No. Wafer and hot liquid is the shortest relationship in biscuit eating.
- Iced version: Unsweetened iced black tea or cold milk. Cold suits the orange, which reads sharper when the drink is not warm.
- Best with: Plain black tea with a splash of milk, black filter coffee, or cold milk.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference KitKat 2 Finger Chocolate Orange Biscuit Bars Multipack, 12 Pack 248.8g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind KitKat
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our commitment to the planet
Sourcing and packaging details are printed on the current UK pack; the brand page carries the fuller story.
The taste profile
How does it compare
A wafer bar under chocolate is quick, sweet and light, so it does not need a cup to prop it up the way a dry biscuit does. What it wants instead is something to clear the chocolate afterwards. A plain black tea, brewed medium and taken unsweetened, does that in one mouthful, and a plain black coffee does it harder.
The Mid-Morning Break
The Lunchbox Route
Made with this tea
The Mid-Morning Break
How to take a KitKat 2 Finger Chocolate Orange with a proper cup.
- 1 two-finger Chocolate Orange bar
- 1 bag plain black tea
- 200ml water at a full boil
- A splash of milk
- Brew one bag in 200ml at a full boil for three minutes and add a splash of milk.
- Open the bar and smell it before you eat it; the orange is strongest in the first few seconds.
- Eat the bar, then take the tea. The cup is there to clear chocolate rather than to accompany it.
- Leave the sugar out; it flattens the orange at once.
What you will end up with: Four minutes, and a clean palate afterwards rather than a chocolate film.
The Sealed Lunchbox Bar
How to use the KitKat 2 Finger multipack as it was designed.
- 1 sealed two-finger bar
- A small carton of cold milk
- Put one sealed bar into the lunchbox. Nothing needs opening, resealing or sharing.
- Pair it with cold milk rather than a hot drink; cold reads sharper against orange.
- Keep the rest of the box cool and dark at home.
- Resist opening two bars at once, which defeats the entire point of the format.
What you will end up with: A wafer that is still crisp at lunchtime, which an unwrapped one would not be.
Chocolate Orange Refrigerator Slice
How to make a fridge slice with KitKat 2 Finger Chocolate Orange.
- 6 two-finger bars, broken
- 200g plain digestive biscuits
- 100g butter
- 2 tablespoons golden syrup
- 150g dark chocolate
- Zest of one orange
- Break six bars into rough pieces and crush the digestives coarsely; the wafer gives texture and the digestive gives the base body.
- Melt 100g of butter with 2 tablespoons of golden syrup and fold everything through with the orange zest.
- Press into a lined tin and pour over 150g of melted dark chocolate.
- Chill for three hours and cut small with a hot knife.
What you will end up with: Fresh zest restoring the orange that the fridge would otherwise mute, with wafer crunch running through a dark slab.
Chocolate Orange Sundae
How to build a sundae with KitKat 2 Finger Chocolate Orange.
- 2 two-finger bars, chopped
- 4 scoops vanilla ice cream
- Zest of half an orange
- 20g dark chocolate to grate
- Chop two bars into rough pieces rather than crumbs.
- Layer with vanilla ice cream in two tall glasses.
- Zest half an orange over the top, which lifts the flavour back up after the cold has flattened it.
- Grate a little dark chocolate over and serve at once, before the wafer softens.
What you will end up with: A sundae that still has crunch in it, provided it reaches the table within a couple of minutes.
Cold Milk And One
How to serve KitKat 2 Finger Chocolate Orange to children.
- 4 sealed two-finger bars
- 4 small glasses of cold milk
- Give one sealed bar each rather than opening the box on the table.
- Pour small glasses of cold milk; cold suits the orange better than a hot drink.
- Skip the dunking entirely, and say why: a wafer has nothing holding it together in liquid.
- Put the box back somewhere cool and dark.
What you will end up with: Four portions, no crumbs, and eight bars still sealed for next time.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Wafer | the structure | Mostly air held in a thin crisp starch lattice. It gives instantly under the teeth, contributes very little flavour of its own, and is the most moisture-sensitive structure in the biscuit aisle. |
| Milk chocolate | the body | Sweet and creamy, and the layer doing almost all the work. A wafer carries far more chocolate per gram of biscuit than a baked biscuit can. |
| Orange | the top note | Sharp and volatile, arriving before the chocolate and cutting the sweetness. It is the single reason to choose this version over the plain one. |
| Individual wrappers | 12 to the box | Each bar stays sealed until it is opened, which is what keeps wafer crisp. Eleven are still sealed while you eat the twelfth. |
| Bar weight | 20.7g a bar | 248.8g across twelve bars, which is our own calculation from the published pack figures rather than a weight printed on the wrapper. |
Pack: KitKat 2 Finger Chocolate Orange Biscuit Bars Multipack, 12 Pack 248.8g; an outer box holding twelve individually wrapped two-finger wafer bars. Best before the date printed on the pack, and best left sealed until the bar is wanted.
Characterising components shown.
Sourcing & blend. KitKat 2 Finger Chocolate Orange Biscuit Bars Multipack, 12 Pack 248.8g carries the KitKat name, which began life at Rowntree's in York as a bar for a working person's break. The two-finger version is the original shape rather than a shrunken one, and the design solves a specific problem: cheap, portable, quick to eat and satisfying without being heavy. A wafer does all four at once. The box you receive is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe for another market. The account of wafer being mostly air in a starch lattice, and therefore both fragile and unusually moisture-sensitive, is general food structure rather than a claim about this pack's recipe, and the flavour reading is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description.
What is in KitKat 2 Finger Chocolate Orange Biscuit Bars Multipack, 12 Pack 248.8g, and what is not:
- In: twelve individually wrapped two-finger wafer bars in an orange chocolate version, 248.8g to the box.
- Not a tea biscuit: this is confectionery. It brings almost no biscuit flavour of its own and the cup beside it is clearing chocolate rather than supporting a dry bake.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference KitKat 2 Finger Chocolate Orange Biscuit Bars Multipack, 12 Pack 248.8g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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