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    "title": "KitKat 2 Finger Dark Chocolate Biscuit Bar Multipack, 8 Pack 165.6g",
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    "excerpt": "KitKat 2 Finger Dark Chocolate Biscuit Bar Multipack is eight individually wrapped two-finger bars, 165.6g in the outer, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the two-finger bar that belongs on a tea shelf rather than in a sweet tin.Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten) and milk. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. A dark shell brings its own bitterness, so this one does not need a builders brew to make sense of it: assam, a strong breakfast blend and even Earl Grey all work. Serve cool rather than cold.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, chocolate bloom and the two-second dunking limit are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below.",
    "content_text": "KitKat 2 Finger Dark Chocolate Biscuit Bar Multipack is eight two-finger bars in one outer, 165.6g in total, which works out at 20.7g a bar. It is the version of the two-finger bar that belongs on a tea shelf more than any other, because dark chocolate brings the one thing the milk version has to borrow from the cup: bitterness. Everything below follows from that single difference. The construction is the same as any two-finger bar. A layered wafer, a filling between the layers, and a chocolate shell that supplies the gloss, the snap and most of what you taste. What changes with a dark shell is the balance. Dark chocolate carries less sugar and more cocoa solids than milk chocolate does, so the sweetness arrives lower and the finish is cleaner, and it sets harder, which means the snap is sharper and survives a warm hand for longer than the milk version manages. None of that makes it a better bar in the abstract. It makes it a better bar with tea. The Taste Profile\n\nCocoa Bitterness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) The reason to choose this one. It gives the bar a spine that the milk chocolate version does not have and does not need to borrow from the drink.\nSweetness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Present but restrained. This reads as a chocolate biscuit rather than as confectionery, which is a genuine distinction in this aisle.\nWafer Crispness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) Dry and light under the shell, and easier to notice here because there is less sugar covering it.\n\nTeas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.5 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind KitKat KitKat is a confectionery name with long roots in the English biscuit trade and a long association with York, which is company heritage and not a statement about where this particular multipack was made. The two-finger bar is the half of the range that never left the biscuit aisle: sold beside biscuits, priced against biscuits and eaten at biscuit moments. The dark chocolate edition is the one that repays that positioning best, because a bar with cocoa depth behind it has something to say next to a strong cup of tea rather than simply being sweet in its presence. The ingredient list, the cocoa percentage, the allergen advice, any certification marks and the country of origin must all be read off the current UK pack rather than taken from this page. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. What You Are Actually Buying \nCount: 8 individually wrapped two-finger bars. That is the count stated on the pack and the number behind every calculation on this page.\nWeight: 165.6g net across the eight, which is 20.7g a bar.\n\nWhat it is not: not the standard milk chocolate bar, not a sharing box for a plate, and not a sweet-toothed child's first choice. It is eight portioned, wrapped bars with some bitterness in them.\n How Does KitKat 2 Finger Dark Chocolate Biscuit Bar Multipack, 8 Pack 165.6g Compare to: \nBorder Dark Chocolate Ginger Organic Biscuits, 150g: Border is the more interesting biscuit and the better one to serve to somebody; this is the better one to keep eight of in a drawer.\nIsland Bakery Chocolate and Ginger Organic Biscuits, 133g: A pack you open deliberately rather than a pack you dip into all week.\nBorder Classic Biscuit Sharing Pack, 400g: Border Classic is a loose assortment for a plate in front of visitors; this is eight sealed portions to take one at a time.\n Ideal Brewing Conditions This is the two-finger bar that widens the range of drinks that work beside it. The milk version needs a strong builders brew to cut through the sugar. A dark shell brings its own bitterness, so lighter and more aromatic teas stop being a mismatch and start being a genuine pairing. The Standard Tea Break \nEveryday black tea: one bag per 200ml, three to four minutes, splash of milk. Still the reliable answer, and less dependent on brewing it hard than the milk version is.\nAssam or a strong breakfast blend: the best pairing of all. Malty depth against cocoa depth, and neither has to shout.\nEarl Grey: worth trying, and a genuine surprise. Bergamot against dark chocolate is an old confectionery pairing and it works in a mug.\nMilk: optional here rather than required, which is not true of the milk chocolate bar.\n The Dunking Question \nTwo seconds, and it holds up better: a harder-setting shell resists hot liquid slightly longer than a milk one. It is still two seconds rather than five.\nWatch the shell, not the wafer: the failure mode is the coating sliding off. The wafer is dry enough to survive a brief dip on its own.\nCoffee: excellent. A short black coffee and a dark chocolate bar are a natural pairing.\nHot chocolate: as a stirrer rather than a dunker. Ten seconds standing in the mug, one stir, and the shell goes into the drink.\n Getting It Right in the Cup \nStorage: cool, dry and out of direct sun. Chocolate blooms when it is warmed and re-sets, leaving a pale surface. Bloom is safe to eat, but the gloss and the snap do not come back.\nServe cool: not cold. Straight from the fridge a dark shell is hard and mutes its own aroma; a cool cupboard is the right place.\nPortion control: the wrappers do the work. Leave the outer in a drawer and take one bar.\nDo not freeze: the wafer picks up moisture on the way back to room temperature and goes soft.\n\n Safety And Purity Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten) and milk. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change. Nutrition: the panel on the outer is the only reliable source. The one number we will stand behind is the 20.7g per bar, because it follows directly from the net weight and the stated count.",
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                "content": "How many bars are in the pack?Eight individually wrapped two-finger bars, 165.6g in the outer, which is 20.7g a bar. What does the dark chocolate actually change?The balance, and therefore the pairing. Dark chocolate carries less sugar and more cocoa solids than milk chocolate, so the sweetness sits lower and the finish is cleaner, and it sets harder, which gives a sharper snap. The practical effect is that the bar brings its own bitterness instead of borrowing it from the cup. What is the cocoa percentage?Dark chocolate covers a wide range and the figure, if the brand publishes one, is printed on the current UK pack. Which tea goes with it?More of them than with the milk version. An assam or a strong breakfast blend is the best pairing, malty depth against cocoa depth. A standard everyday brew at three to four minutes works, and does not have to be brewed as hard as it does beside a milk chocolate bar. Milk is optional here rather than required. Does Earl Grey really work with it?It does, and it is worth trying if you have written the combination off. Bergamot against dark chocolate is an old confectionery pairing, and it survives the move from a box of chocolates to a mug of tea better than most things do. It does not work with the milk chocolate version, where the sugar flattens the citrus. Can I dunk it?Briefly, and slightly better than the milk version manages. A harder-setting shell resists hot liquid a moment longer, but the window is still about two seconds rather than five. Watch the shell rather than the wafer, because the failure is the coating sliding off. Should it be served cold?Cool, not cold. Straight from the fridge a dark shell is hard and mutes its own aroma, which loses you half of what you paid for. A cool cupboard is the right place, and ten minutes out of a fridge is enough to bring a chilled bar back. What is the pale grey film on the chocolate?That is bloom, and it happens when chocolate is warmed and re-sets. It is not mould and it is not spoilage; the bar is safe to eat. What you lose is the gloss and a good deal of the snap, and neither comes back. Storing cool and out of direct sun is the only prevention. How should I store the outer?Cool, dry and out of direct sunlight, which for most kitchens means a cupboard rather than a worktop. The individual wrappers mean the pack does not go soft after the first day the way an opened packet of biscuits does, so the outer keeps perfectly well once it is opened. The best-before date is on the pack. Can I freeze them?You can, and we would not. Coming back to room temperature the wafer picks up moisture from the air and goes soft, and a soft wafer is the one thing this format cannot survive. The fridge is fine in a hot spell; the freezer costs you the texture. Where is it made?KitKat has a long association with the English biscuit trade and with York, which is company heritage rather than a statement about where this multipack was produced. The country of origin is printed on the pack."
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                "content": "Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten) and milk. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Ingredients, as published for this barcode: Sugar, cocoa mass, WHEAT flour (contains calcium, iron, thiamin and niacin), vegetable fats (palm, palm kernel, shea, sal), cocoa butter, butterfat (MILK), emulsifier (lecithins), whole MILK powder, whey powder product (MILK), yeast, raising agent (sodium bicarbonate), skimmed MILK powder, glucose syrup, whey powder (MILK), natural flavourings.Typical values per 100g, as publishedPer 100gEnergy501 kcalFat25.7gof which saturates14.2gCarbohydrate58.6gof which sugars44.8gFibre5.5gProtein5.6gSalt0gIngredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.IngredientProportionWhat it bringsLayered waferthe bodyThe structure of the bar and almost all of its lightness. Mostly air held in a thin starch lattice, and easier to notice under a dark shell than under a sweet one.Filling between the layersNot stated to usWhat turns loose wafer sheets into a solid finger. It carries very little flavour of its own; the shell does that work.Dark chocolate shellthe flavourThe lead note, the gloss and the snap in one component. Less sugar and more cocoa solids than a milk shell, which is what gives this bar bitterness of its own and the sharpest snap of any two-finger bar we list.Cocoa percentageNot stated to usDark chocolate covers a wide range.Pack: KitKat 2 Finger Dark Chocolate Biscuit Bar Multipack, 8 Pack 165.6g; eight individually wrapped two-finger bars, 20.7g each. Best before the date printed on the pack, and best kept cool and sealed.The pack in front of you is the version to trust at the point of purchase.Sourcing & blend. KitKat 2 Finger Dark Chocolate Biscuit Bar Multipack, 8 Pack 165.6g is the dark chocolate edition of the two-finger bar, the half of the KitKat range that has always been sold and priced as a biscuit rather than as confectionery. KitKat has a long association with the English biscuit trade and with York, which is company heritage rather than a claim about where this multipack was produced. The pack you receive is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different specification.What is in KitKat 2 Finger Dark Chocolate Biscuit Bar Multipack, 8 Pack 165.6g, and what is not:In: eight individually wrapped two-finger bars, 165.6g to the outer, each one a layered wafer under a dark chocolate shell.Not the milk chocolate bar: less sugar, more cocoa, a cleaner finish and a harder snap. It is the version that pairs with tea rather than the version that needs tea to rescue it."
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                "title": "Flavour Science",
                "content": "The flavour of KitKat 2 Finger Dark Chocolate Biscuit Bar Multipack, 8 Pack 165.6g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains exactly why the bar tastes the way it does from the moment the wrapper comes off to the film left on the palate.The outer layer is aromatic, and on a dark shell it is roasted cocoa rather than sweetened milk. Cocoa solids carry a great many volatile compounds produced during fermentation and roasting, and a shell with more of those solids in it and less sugar smells deeper and less creamy than a milk one, closer to a plain chocolate bar than to a sweet. The wafer contributes nothing to the aroma. Temperature is the lever: straight from a fridge the shell is hard and gives up almost nothing, which is the most common way people lose half of what they bought. A cool cupboard rather than a cold one is the right storage, and ten minutes out of the fridge brings a chilled bar back.The flavour spike arrives quickly but lands lower than it does on a milk bar. The shell melts close to body temperature across a high surface area, so the first impression is still immediate, but what arrives is cocoa bitterness with sugar behind it rather than sugar with cocoa behind it. That inversion is the whole product. It gives the mid palate a spine, it stops the sweetness spreading flat, and it means the bar does not depend on the drink beside it to make sense of it. The wafer follows half a beat later and is easier to notice here than under a milk shell, because there is less sugar masking it: a dry, brittle interruption that keeps the mouthful light.The base structure is a clean finish, which is unusual for a wrapped chocolate bar. Cocoa butter leaves a film, as it does with any chocolate, but there is less sugar sitting on top of it, so the palate clears faster and the aftertaste is bitter rather than sweet. That has two consequences worth knowing. The bar is less tiring than the milk version, so two in a sitting is not the mistake it would otherwise be, and the drink beside it has an easier job, because it is clearing fat rather than fighting sugar.Getting it right in the cup. Serve the bar cool rather than cold, and break it along the groove before it warms in your hand. For tea, an assam or a strong breakfast blend is the best pairing available: malty depth against cocoa depth, with neither having to shout. A standard everyday brew at three to four minutes works well and does not need the extra minute that a milk chocolate bar demands. Milk in the cup is optional here rather than required, which is not true of the milk version. Earl Grey is worth trying and surprises people: bergamot against dark chocolate is an old confectionery pairing and it survives the move into a mug. Coffee is excellent, particularly a short black. If you dunk, you have about two seconds, a fraction longer than the milk version gives you because the shell sets harder, and you should watch the shell rather than the wafer.How water and temperature change it. The bar itself is more robust to warmth than a milk one, because a harder-setting shell tolerates a warm hand for longer, but the limits are the same: leave it somewhere properly warm and the shell blooms grey, and the gloss and the snap never return. Cold is the other trap, and the one people fall into more often with dark chocolate, because a fridge-hard shell mutes the aroma that is the reason to buy this version. On the drink side, hard water flattens the astringency of a black tea, which matters less here than with a sweet bar since you are not relying on tannin to cut sugar, so a hard-water area is no obstacle to this pairing. Cold brewed black tea over ice works in warm weather, provided the bar has stayed cool, and unsweetened is the only way to drink it beside a bar this clean."
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                "content": "KitKat 2 Finger Dark Chocolate Biscuit Bar Multipack, 8 Pack 165.6g gives you eight identical 20.7g units, so you can count rather than weigh. Six builds below cover the assam pairing this bar deserves, the Earl Grey experiment, an espresso break, a fridge cake, a sundae crumb and the week's desk rotation.\nRecipes, born here first\n The Assam Pairing How to make The Assam Pairing with KitKat 2 Finger Dark Chocolate. 5 min 1 mug Easy You'll need 1 KitKat 2 Finger Dark Chocolate bar, cool not cold 1 bag assam or a strong breakfast blend 200ml water at a full boil Milk, optional Method Brew one bag in 200ml at a full boil for three to four minutes. This bar does not need the extra minute that a milk chocolate one does. Decide on milk rather than adding it by habit. Without it the malt shows more clearly against the cocoa. Break the bar along the groove while it is still cool, then sip first and bite second. Leave the sugar out. There is bitterness on both sides of this pairing and that is the point of it. Malty depth against cocoa depth, with neither side shouting. \n The Earl Grey Experiment How to make The Earl Grey Experiment with KitKat 2 Finger Dark Chocolate. 4 min 1 cup Easy You'll need 1 KitKat 2 Finger Dark Chocolate bar 1 bag Earl Grey 200ml just boiled water A strip of orange peel, optional Method Brew the Earl Grey for three minutes only. Longer and the bergamot turns soapy against the cocoa. Drink it black. Milk flattens the citrus and the whole point of this build is the citrus. Twist a strip of orange peel over the cup if you have one, then drop it in. Eat the bar between sips rather than alongside them. What you'll end up with: An old confectionery pairing that survives the move into a mug. It does not work with the milk chocolate version, where sugar flattens the bergamot. \n The Espresso Break How to make The Espresso Break with KitKat 2 Finger Dark Chocolate. 3 min 1 cup Easy You'll need 1 KitKat 2 Finger Dark Chocolate bar 1 short black coffee A glass of cold water Method Pull a short shot and drink it unsweetened. Break the bar in half and eat one finger before the coffee and one after. Drink the water in between, which resets the palate and makes the second finger taste like the first. \n Four Bar Salted Fridge Cake How to make Four Bar Salted Fridge Cake with KitKat 2 Finger Dark Chocolate. 20 min + chill 9 squares Easy You'll need 4 KitKat 2 Finger Dark Chocolate bars, roughly 83g 75g butter 2 tablespoons golden syrup Flaky salt Method Break four bars into rough pieces by hand. Counting is more accurate than weighing here, because each bar is 20.7g. Melt the butter and syrup together gently and take the pan off the heat before it colours. Fold in the broken bars quickly, so the wafer does not soften in the warm mixture. Press into a lined tin, scatter flaky salt over the top and chill for three hours before cutting. What you'll end up with: A fridge cake that does not need extra chocolate melted into it, because the bars have brought their own bitterness. \n Dark Shard Sundae How to make Dark Shard Sundae with KitKat 2 Finger Dark Chocolate. 5 min 2 sundaes Easy You'll need 2 KitKat 2 Finger Dark Chocolate bars, frozen 20 minutes 4 scoops vanilla ice cream 2 tablespoons strong cold coffee A pinch of flaky salt Method Freeze two bars for twenty minutes, then crush them in the wrapper into shards rather than dust. Scoop the ice cream and pour a tablespoon of cold coffee over each glass. Scatter the shards and finish with flaky salt. Serve straight away, while the shards are cold enough to stay crisp. What you'll end up with: Dark shards against plain vanilla is a better sundae than a sweet bar gives you, because the bitterness cuts the cream. \n The Eight Bar Desk Rotation How to make The Eight Bar Desk Rotation with KitKat 2 Finger Dark Chocolate. 2 min 8 breaks Easy You'll need 1 outer, 8 bars, 165.6g A box of assam or strong breakfast tea A cool drawer, not a sunny shelf Method Keep the outer in the coolest drawer you have, away from a radiator and out of the sun. Take one bar a day and leave the rest sealed. Vary the cup rather than the bar: assam one day, Earl Grey the next, a short black on the third. Check the shell in hot weather. A bloomed bar is safe but it will not snap. What you'll end up with: Eight breaks from one outer, and a bar with enough character to take a different drink each time."
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