Kinder Surprise
Despite the fact there’s hardly any chocolate in a Kinder Surprise, it’s still one of my all-time favourites. But this little egg is more about what’s inside than the chocolate itself.
If you’ve never had one, Kinder Surprise is a thin milk chocolate egg with a little yellow plastic capsule inside. Stuffed inside the capsule is the surprise – a random toy – usually complete with Ikea-style incomprehensible assembly instructions.
But before opening this egg, I should mention the chocolate shell.
There may not be much of it (it’s almost paper thin in places), but it’s deliciously smooth and creamy. It’s pretty much the same as the Kinder Chocolate I reviewed back in December – a thin layer of milk chocolate with a creamy white lining inside. According to the wrapper, it’s 15% cocoa solids, 32% milk solids.
But you don’t really buy Kinder Surprise for the chocolate. You buy it for the little yellow capsule – and before you can get to the surprise inside, you have to go through the ordeal of opening it. For this, you will probably need to enlist the help of a small child or you could be there all day.
In theory, you just pull the two halves apart, but in practice it’s such a tight fit you have to squeeze it with your teeth or hit it with a hammer.
Once inside, you find yourself either a little too excited or slightly disappointed by the contents. And unfortunately I was disappointed by this egg. I had been hoping for a fully functional self-assembly minature nuclear power station – the kind of Kinder toy I remember from my childhood… but all I got was this little purple gorilla.
Such is life.
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- Available online from:
- HandyCandy.co.uk and Amazon.co.uk (UK)
- Find more great chocolate & exclusive discount vouchers in our Chocolate Shop.
- Contains milk chocolate, white chocolate.
- Filed under egg, kinder, milk chocolate, white chocolate.
I have full set of gorillas, and only need the orange and dark green bunny :D
I have almost collected the full happy hippo talent show however i have got 2 judge jims and 2 of these fantasy frog flippers anyone willing to trade?
Hey guys, just a reminder that if you’re looking to trade you can join our forums and send each other private messages so you don’t need to give your address out in public.
Nobody is online grrr >:Z no respomse yet on the trade either :p
I am Americas #1 fan of Kinder Surprise. I have many Kinder toys and I want to open a Kinder Surprise museum in the Chicagoland area. Please donate your Kinder toys to this cause, and the whole world will see them!
are there any Kinder Surprise fans in Chicago??? I have thousands of Kinder toys and I want to put them on youtube or a website or something.
I dont own a digital camera or a cam corder and dont know how to use them anyways and dont want to learn, I am too busy putting together Kinder toys. So I need someone from Chicago area or who wants to come here and film my collection to put on youtube or a web site. They can have any and all filming credits and rights.
So if you want to donate Kinder toys fine, I am not paying money for these donations only thank you. Anyone who donates will be commemorated for their donation.
I will cherish these Kinder toys more than anyone!!!!!!!
pete502502@yahoo.com
contact information for donating Kinder toys.
Yay! Now I only need the orange bunny :D
If anyone is looking to buy Kinder eggs they should check out http://www.dutchmarket.ca . They sell them by the case for really cheap! I have been ordering from here for years and never had one broken egg
I just brought my 4year old a kinders choc. How disapointing for both of us. She was expecting a toy instead she go something that worked once and that was that. She is now in tears and hates kinders. It must make you feel realy good to ripe off little children. Will never by kinders again. I now remember why I used to by Yowies rather than your product. Hope you have a lovely day as you have broken a little girls heart. 3 lost customers.
Dear Jennifer,
When you learn how to use the Internet, I’ll stop putting useless toys in your daughter’s Kinder Eggs.
Hope this helps.
I got a green rabit with an extra leg, I was just wondering if this is a special toy or if that’s how it is supposed to be
just come back from spain yay! got 2 asterix toys (Cleoppatra and Viking) And tweety bird on skateboard aswell as a rocket :O
Hey, if anyone’s wanting to trade kinder toys, I have a website where I’m putting my doubles on :)
ComaCalm,
What is the name of your website?
it doesn’t matter i found it. sent you an email :)
kindercalm dot jimdo dot com
That’s my website link :)
Hello.I live in iran.I want to buy hat kinder surprise 72eggs. How much is each hat kinder surprise germany 72eggs!
why can I buy it from your place!
I from Iran and I live in Tehran. I want to buy a box of 72 hat German Kinder Surprise eggs or more. How much is of 72 hat eggs? How can I offer it?
Hi i got a toy in my kinder surpise that you can build it is a spaceship
Hi if anyone has those gorillas set like the one at the top page I would like to buy it from you.So please contact me at ibrahim_akhtar@hotmail.com.
Thank you.
hello there
wondering if anyone knows where i may be able to buy a catalogue of kinder toys … we have got tons and would like to know what they are worth … we have an older catalogue from about 10 yrs ago…. does anyone know if there is a newer one? kinder eggs rock. thanks :)
Hi all collectors,
I’m from England and i have a huge Kinder Collection. I have lots for trade/sale if you are interested. I also have some on ebay now. For more info please email me at mike2kt@yahoo.com
Heey if you are interested, i sell my kinder surprise collection from my youth. On the links below you can see the advertisements, it the dutch brother of eBay.
http://kopen.marktplaats.nl/verzamelen/verrassingseieren/c2141.html
my adds are titled: Kinder Surprise / Divers / 2
Kinder Surprise / Divers / 1
Kinder Surprise / Dubbel Figuurtjes + Glow in dark spoken
ya so i hate that too i used to love the toys and u got to assemble them and they were just super exctiting but now they just suck!!! u open it to get a lame toy that is already assembled and does absolutely nothing but look stupid!!!!! im very upset
Hello all, I live in Namibia and I am hoping to purchase the complete set of Kinder Joy Ice Age 3 toys for my partner. If anyone has this to sell, please let me know. Thank you and keep Kindering :-)))
I am looking for a replacement purple rubbery toy that i got in a kinder egg. its like a blob thing hard to describe but if anyone thinks that they may have one and are willing to sell (am in UK) then contact me @ bulletgirl@live.co.uk
when was kinder surprise FIRST FIRST made or discovered?? really need this question answered right away, school project!!
i got the red one and the dancing green one
can i have the yellow and the orange one
Guys, stop complaining about the toys. They aren’t for adults, they’re for kids.
Hah,
I love how you explain this.. it is a very thin paper like shell of chocolate deliciousness …Im drooling at the mouth…
And i love your photography skills….Such is life <3
Could you let me know as soon as possible, are all the kindersurprise chocolates peanut free?. Some are labelled as such others are not.
Hello,
I am Alyssa. I LOVE kinder eggs and I love the toy! But…My toy was a boat and I got two right parts when I needed a right and a left part, and my boat wouldn’t go together!! I don’t know if I can complain here, but I don’t know how to e-mail the KinderSurprise company and I want to complain to them, because my boat will not go together! :(
Thank-you!!
we bought a kinder egg and i got a car init and it said to go onto the website and take a piture of it on the webcam but its not working and i would like to know why thankyou
Well, you could try going to the official Kinder site and asking them instead of a chocolate review site like a spaz…
I live in Canada & I have about 400 Kinder toys for sale.
Anyone interested?