I consider myself a foodie. I'm really into food, I love to cook, I spend hours planning a meal. I cook everything from Indian to French to Southern. So, understand that's my background when I complain about a cookbook.

At work, we celebrate birthdays and I love it. Our company is tiny (less than 15) and when we get together to celebrate, it's always a lot of fun. However, in the spirit of the thread about food at work, I offered to cook a carrot cake for the celebration. I figured I could use a recipe from the new Weightwatchers cookbook I just got. People at work were excited because they've tasted my stuff before and they love it.

This was the worst carrot cake I have ever tasted. Worst! It was flat, dry as sawdust and hard as cardboard. There was absolutely no flavor. It smelled divine when it was cooking. I am so disappointed.

Does anyone have an experience with this cookbook? Is it all going to be this terrible?

I've decided to use a old carrot cake recipe I have and try to lighten it myself. Grrrr.

*(Edit: I checked the WW website for Carrot Cake recipes and they have one for the same points value but the recipe is completely different than the cookbook. I wonder if I'm not the first person to complain about this recipe and they corrected it?)

I made this crustless pumpkin pie from a WW cookbook

It was the first time i was utterly unimpressed with one of their recipes .... it just did not taste like anything at all

which blew my mind, because it had all the pumpkin spice and whatnot in there

I don't know which one you have, but I have three WW cookbooks, and find that it's hit or miss with the recipes I've tried. Some are great, others end up getting thrown out they're so horrible. Sorry your experience had to be shared with your coworkers.

I have several of their cookbooks and have not come across a recipe I don't like.....yet!

However, I am not a baker so I have only been using thier lunch and dinner recipes.

Overall, they are pretty yummy!