Kinder Happy Hippo Hazelnut is a hippo-shaped wafer biscuit filled with hazelnut cream, made by Ferrero. The crisp wafer shell holds a soft double filling that stays creamy against the crunch — the reason Happy Hippos have been a European lunchbox and after-school staple for decades.
These are the original European Happy Hippos, imported directly and shipped from our New Jersey warehouse across the USA. They are not stocked by US supermarkets, which is why most people searching for hippo chocolate end up importing them.
What makes Happy Hippos different
The shape is the point. Each hippo is a hollow wafer biscuit rather than a solid bar, so the texture is light and crisp instead of dense. Inside sits a two-part cream filling — hazelnut on one side, a lighter milk cream on the other — with the wafer dusted in cocoa on the outside. It eats more like a biscuit than a chocolate, which is why Happy Hippo candy has its own following separate from the rest of the Kinder range.
Hazelnut or Cocoa?
Hazelnut is the nuttier of the two and the closer relative to Kinder Bueno. The Cocoa version leads with a cocoa cream instead. Same wafer shell, different filling — most people have a firm preference once they have tried both.
Browse the full Kinder chocolate range for Bueno, Maxi and Kinder Riegel, or the wider German chocolate selection.
