Chocolate shots! (Weight Watchers Mini Chocolate Cupcakes)

Member Name: SweetTooth93

Product:	Weight Watchers Mini Chocolate Cupcakes
Date:	15/07/09 (9 review reads)
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Advantages: nice enough, great chocolate layer

Disadvantages: not overly healthy, packaging is wasted, expensive

Weight watchers are a diet company who supply products suitable for the WeightWatchers diet. One of their products are the mini chocolate cupcakes.

They can be found in all supermarkets such as Tesco, Asda, Waitrose etc as well as being able to be ordered from Weight Watchers themselves either online or over the phone. Often they can be found in little newsagents and petrol stations however not very often. They are part of a large range of WW cakes and pastries.

They come in a box of 9 and each cake weighs roughly 20g. This is very light for a cake however they are described as mini so they weren't really going to be any bigger anyway. The box of 9 costs £1.68 which works out at around 19p per cake. This is very expensive I think! For the size of these cakes I'd expect to pay around 10p per cake and definitely not any more than 12p! Therefore I think this is a bit of a rip off and I think a more suitable price would be one pound. Often there are offers on but not currently.

The cakes come in a box which is made of cardboard. Considering the amount inside the box, it is huge. What a waste of packaging. On the back is all the usual nutrition information and ingredients and on the front is the brand name and a product description. My favourite part of the front of the box though is the delicious looking pictures. There are images of the 9 cakes. They do look very delicious. I'm not even keen on chocolate cakes but these managed to tempt me a lot.

The box is easy to open and inside each cake is in its own chocolate brown wrapper. There is not really a smell to them only a chocolate hint ! This suited me fine. They didn't look overly small however they weren't massive and I was a really annoyed at how much I had paid. I knew there was no way I'd be able to just eat one and I knew I'd end up munching through at least two of them.

Like I say I am not hugely keen on chocolate cake however the taste of them was great. Victoria The sponge was actually quite dense however it was pleasent and had a real baked taste to it. The chocolate flavour was quite strong though and I didn't really like this but that is just because I'm not a fan of choc cake anyway. It didn't clog up the back of my throat but instead it sank down easily. On top of the cake was a delicious layer of chocolate. The layer was surprisingly thick actually and tasted really creamy and milky. This was my favourite part of the cake. On top of the chocolate layer were some little chocolate curls. These added a nice texture to the cake.

They were quite tiny so I was hoping they'd be low in calories and fat. To be honest I wasn't impressed at all by the nutrition. One cake contains 87 calories and 4.3g of fat. For the size of them I thought they would contain only around 70 calories. There is no way one will satisfy you so if you eat two or three that's 170 to 260 ish calories and you would be as well just having a nice slice of a real baked cake! The fat content is really quite high too. I was a bit let down by the usually amazing weight watchers nutrition.

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