Low fat, low taste. (Weight Watchers Chocolate Brownies)

Member Name: tarara

Product:	Weight Watchers Chocolate Brownies
Date:	05/02/05 (957 review reads)
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Advantages: The icing was nice

Disadvantages: The sponge was tasteless

I tried these after a friend took a pack into work one night as a treat fro us both I am always on the look out for low sin (slimming world) products especially sweet things so I was really looking forward to them.

They come in a mainly white cardboard box with the weightwatchers brand name in dark blue writing and chocolate brownies written under that in the same dark blue.
Beneath that is the decription of the product in grey much smaller writing.

It says 4 delicious sponge cakes with chocolate icing with sugar and sweetener.

There is then a picture of 4 quite yummy looking chocolate brownies with nice glossy looking icing atop them.

On the front of the package it states they are suitable for vegetarians, they contain 2 weightwatchers points, 0.6g of saturated fat and 143 calories this by the way is each not for the box! For anyone on slimming world they are 7.5 sins each on either red or green days so not so low after all!

They contain gluten and are produced in a factory handling nuts.

On opening the box we found the brownies in a clear plastic tray sealed in cellophane.

They still looked as good as the picture and we could hardly wait to get into them.

The cellophane came off, there was no particular smell on opening them, but even without the cellophane they still looked appetising. The icing looks as glossy as it does on the picture and the sponge looked moist.

They are about 10cm square and about 1 cm deep, the icing is quite thick.

We reached in and took a brownie each, the icing was nice and sticky and they felt quite heavy just as a brownie should.

This is for most part where the pleasure stopped!
One biting into one I found the sponge rather tasteless, certainly not chocolatey, rather bland in fact and about the consistency of one of those foam washing up spontex sponge thingies.

The icing was quite pleasant though, it tasted more chocolately than the sponge and was nice and sweet without being sickly.

On later reading the ingredients i found that there is only 5%reduced fat cocoa powder in the product and I would say most of that would be in the icing.

I wouldn't rush out to buy these unless I was really desperate for something sweet and even then they would be as a last resort as I could spend my sins on something far more tasty and a lot cheaper. These cost £1.49 for a box of 4.

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