What Are Kinder Schoko-Bons? The Filled Chocolate Eggs Explained

What are Kinder Schoko-Bons?

Kinder Schoko-Bons are bite-sized chocolate eggs with a soft milk cream filling and finely chopped hazelnuts, sold loose in a bag rather than in a bar or a box. Each one is a single mouthful: a thin milk chocolate shell, a creamy centre, and just enough hazelnut to give it texture.

If you know Kinder from the bars, this is the same milk chocolate and the same milk cream idea, in a shape built for sharing rather than snapping.

What is actually inside one

The outer layer, a delicate milk chocolate coating, thin enough to give way immediately. And the filling, hazelnut shrapnel, dispersed in soft milk cream filling.

They are egg-shaped and wrapped individually inside the bag, which is why they turn up in party bowls and Easter baskets: you can put out a handful without cutting or unwrapping anything.

How they differ from the other Kinder products

British shoppers know the brand and then get lost among the formats, so here is the short version.

• Schoko-Bons are loose filled eggs in a bag, milk cream and hazelnut, for sharing.
• Kinder Riegel are the individually wrapped bars with a plain milk cream centre and no nuts, sized for a lunchbox.
• Kinder Country is a bar with cereal through it, so it has crunch rather than cream, sized for a lunchbox.

The dividing line is texture. Riegel is smooth, Country is crisp, Schoko-Bons sit in between with the nut giving them a little bite.

Why the bag format matters

Bars are portioned for one person. A bag of Schoko-Bons is portioned for a room. That makes them the Kinder product people buy for birthdays, for a bowl on a table at Christmas, or to hide in a cupboard and dispense one at a time.

It also makes them easy to over-eat, which anyone who has opened a bag will confirm. They are small enough that the count gets away from you.

Are they the same as Kinder Surprise?

No, and this is the question that comes up most. Kinder Surprise is a hollow egg with a toy capsule inside, bought one at a time and aimed squarely at children. Schoko-Bons are solid filled sweets with no toy, sold by the bag, and eaten by adults at least as often.

The shape is the only thing the two share. If you are shopping for a child's treat with a surprise in it, these are not it; if you want the Kinder flavour in a form you can put in a bowl, they are exactly it.

Serving and keeping them

They are best at room temperature, where the cream centre is soft. Straight from the fridge the filling firms up and the chocolate loses some of its aroma, so take them out a little before serving. (Some Germans prefer these directly from the fridge as the texture becomes significantly more crunchy).

Keep them somewhere cool and dark. Like any filled milk chocolate they suffer in direct sun or a warm car, and the shell is thin enough that they show it quickly.

The pack we stock

Our Kinder Schoko-Bons in the 300g bag is the standard German pack, the size sold for sharing rather than the small handful you might find at a till. It holds enough for a family sweet dish or a party bowl.

They sit with the other filled chocolates in our filled chocolate section, next to the boxed pralines if you are putting together a mixed order.

The short answer

Schoko-Bons are Kinder in egg form: milk chocolate shell, milk cream and hazelnut filling, one bite each, sold by the bag. Buy them when you are feeding more than one person.