Kinder Happy Hippo is a biscuit/candy made by the Italian chocolate and confectionery company Ferrero.
Composition
The candy consists of a wafer biscuit shaped like a hippopotamus. Inside the crisp hollow biscuit are two flavours of icing: milk-flavored and hazelnut cream in the original flavour, and milk cream and chocolate cream in the cocoa flavour, similar to a Kinder Bueno. It is available in milk, dark, and white chocolate variants.
A milk-flavoured and strawberry icing in the strawberry flavour was introduced in summer for a limited time, but was quickly discontinued.[1]
Marketing
"Happy Hippo" were made famous by a series of popular animated commercials featuring a dog and a hippo getting into various situations that generally end in the two sharing a Happy Hippo biscuit. The original light blue Happy Hippo character was created by the French designer André Roche for Ferrero chocolates in 1987 and became famous worldwide due to its repeated appearances as a toy in easter eggs.