6 ALMOND CAKE SLICES (Weight Watchers Cake Slices)

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Product:	Weight Watchers Cake Slices
Date:	10/05/07 (146 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Quite tasty

Disadvantages: Sponge is too dry therefore rendering the taste superfluous

I do bake very occasionally but believe there’s no shame in buying shop-bought cake (providing you take all the wrapping off and bash them about a bit before offering them as home-made to guests).

Recently, I was introduced to Weight Watchers cake slices; not because I need to lose weight (there isn’t a pick on me, it’s desperate) but because whilst taking tea with some friends recently, they bought out some WW carrot cake slices, which were totally delicious and which I can highly recommend.

However, this week I bought a pack of Weight Watchers 6 Almond Cake Slices and was extremely disappointed

Description:

‘Deliciously moist almond sponge on a pastry base, layered with strawberry jam and topped with flaked almonds’.

Moist? I think not, WW!! The sponge was quite dry, so much so that I double-checked the packaging to see if it was still in date. Even my husband, who’d eat anything suspicious after a good sniff, proclaimed the cake a huge disappointment after our delight with WW’s carrot cake – although I do think that carrot cake is always going to be more moist than other cakes.

Taste-wise, the cake was fine. It wasn’t too sweet and tasted as an almond cake slice should.

Each slice measures 1.25” across, 2.5” long and 2.5” deep. A couple of bites and they’re gone.

The thin, pastry base is layered with a thin layer of strawberry jam (not too sweet) and sponge cake which is dotted with flaked almonds. I can’t fault the make-up of the little slices, the taste is just right but the sponge does mar an otherwise good cake.

Against all slimming rules, they cake is made more moist by serving with custard.

Dietary information:

For those interested in the WW points programme, each slice has a 1.5 points value.

Each slice contains 95 calories plus:
Protein 1.4g
Carbohydrates 16.6g
(of which sugars 7.5g)
Fat 2.6g
(of which saturates 0.9g)
Fibre 0.6g
Sodium 0.07g

Suitable for vegetarians but not suitable for vegans. Not suitable for people with nut allergy or with celiac disease.

In conclusion:

Despite the fact that I was disappointed with the dry sponge of the Almond Cake Slices, Weight Watchers Cake slices are fairly good value for a shop bought cake. Obviously, they will never replace home cooking as far as bulk/cost is concerned but you can’t fault the taste. But I won’t be buying this particular variety again.

A word about the packaging:

The product comes in an oblong box. The cake slices are on a plastic, oblong tray which is wrapped in cellophane. Once the packaging is open, unless you either eat the 6 slices all in one go or remember to put the rest away, the remaining slices will spoil and dry out even more.

Personally, I think it would be better if the slices were at least packaged in two’s, thereby allowing you to sample the product two slices at a time and leaving the remaining product fresh.

I paid £1.25 for the packet of 6 slices at the Co-op – although I suspect you could get them for less elsewhere because I live in the Highlands of Scotland where food prices are extortionate.

Further information on Weight Watchers products can be found at www.weightwatchers.co.uk which gives further advice of their supermarket range of prepared foods plus further information on the points system.

Summary: A bit of a let down from WW's usually moist cake slices