Whittaker's
Whittaker's is the chocolate New Zealanders reach for first, and the one people miss most once they leave. Every block below is real New Zealand stock, packed in Auckland and sent worldwide.
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Which one to pick
A short guide to the range, and what each one actually tastes like.
- Creamy Milk 33%
- The one to start with. Milkier and less sweet than most supermarket milk chocolate, and the block every other flavour is built on.
- Peanut Slab
- Whole roasted peanuts in milk chocolate, thick enough to snap rather than bend. The most requested single bar in the range.
- Hokey Pokey Crunch
- Shards of honeycomb toffee through milk chocolate. Hokey pokey is the flavour outsiders never quite have an equivalent for.
- Dark Ghana 72%
- The serious end of the shelf. Bitter, clean and not at all sweet, from single-origin Ghanaian cocoa.
- Almond Gold
- Whole roasted almonds in milk chocolate. The nut block for people who find peanuts too sweet.
- Berry and Biscuit
- Biscuit pieces and berry through milk chocolate. Divides people more than any other block, which is usually a good sign.
- Coconut
- Soft coconut centre rather than dry flakes. Closer to a coconut bar than a flavoured block.
- Creamy Caramel
- Soft caramel that stays soft, not the hard-set kind. Best in a cooler month.
- White 28%
- Made with real cocoa butter, so it tastes of something rather than just sugar.
- Dark Salted Caramel 62%
- Salt and bitterness doing the work that sweetness usually does. The best of the flavoured dark blocks.
- Assorted Mini Slabs
- Try the range a slab at a time before committing to a full block.
- Marlborough Sea Salt Caramel Brittle
- From the range built around named New Zealand ingredients. Worth it for the brittle texture alone.
Milk, dark, or white
The range splits three ways, and the cocoa percentage on the front of each block tells you where you are.
Milk sits at 33% cocoa. That is higher than most milk chocolate sold overseas. It is why people call it creamier and less sweet at once. Creamy Milk is the plain one. Almond Gold, Hokey Pokey Crunch, Berry and Biscuit, Coconut, Hazelnut and the Peanut Slab are all built on it.
Dark runs from 50% up to 92%. The Dark Block at 50% is approachable and still fairly sweet. Dark Ghana at 72% is the one most dark-chocolate drinkers settle on. Above that, the Cocoa Lovers blocks at 86% and 92% are for people who already know they want that.
White is 28% and made with cocoa butter, not vegetable fat. That is the difference between white chocolate tasting of something and tasting of sugar.
The New Zealand ingredient blocks
A slice of the range is built around named New Zealand ingredients rather than flavours: Marlborough sea salt, Nelson pear with manuka honey, Kerikeri mandarin with Fijian ginger, West Coast buttermilk, Wellington roasted coffee.
These are the ones to send if you are posting a box to someone who already knows the standard flavours. They are harder to find outside New Zealand than the everyday blocks are.
Slabs, blocks and bars
Three formats, and the names are not interchangeable.
- A block is the flat 250g slab you break into squares. Most of the range.
- A slab is the thick bar, as in the Peanut Slab. Chunkier than a block and eaten in pieces rather than squares.
- Mini slabs are the small individually wrapped ones, sold assorted. Useful for working out which flavour is yours before committing to a full block.
If you are ordering for someone else and have no idea which they prefer, the assorted mini slabs answer the question for you.
Sending Whittaker’s overseas
Chocolate is the thing people most want to send and the thing most at risk in transit. One rate covers the first 2 kg, so a box of blocks ships for the same price as a single one. Parcels travel unrefrigerated, so the month and the destination matter more than the speed does.
Cooler destinations are fine year round. Hot ones are a genuine gamble in summer, and the honest advice is to order chocolate in the cooler half of the year and send biscuits or lollies in the meantime. Our heat-sensitive products policy sets out exactly where we stand on that, and the destination pages carry the advice for specific countries.
Common questions
What is the difference between Whittaker's and other chocolate ＋
Two things people notice straight away. The blocks are thicker, so they snap rather than bend, and the milk chocolate is less sweet than most of what sits on an overseas supermarket shelf. The cocoa percentage is printed on every block, which makes it easy to work out what you are getting before you buy.
Which Whittaker's block should I try first ＋
Creamy Milk 33% if you want to understand the range, because everything else is a variation on it. Peanut Slab if you want the single most popular thing in the range. Dark Ghana 72% if you already know you prefer dark chocolate.
Is Whittaker's chocolate suitable for a particular diet ＋
It depends entirely on the block, and the range is wide. Every product page here carries the ingredient list and allergen information from the packaging, so check the specific block you are buying rather than relying on a general answer. If you have a severe allergy, get in touch before ordering.
Will Whittaker's chocolate melt on the way to me ＋
It can. Parcels travel unrefrigerated and we cannot control temperatures after dispatch, so chocolate sent into a hot summer may arrive soft or melted, and melted chocolate is not refunded. If you are somewhere warm, order in a cooler month, or send biscuits and lollies instead.
How much Whittaker's fits in one shipping box ＋
One rate covers the first 2 kg, and a standard block is 250g, so roughly eight blocks ship for the same price as one. Above 2 kg a step rate applies per half kilogram. The exact figure shows at checkout once you enter your address.