Package for dough products including a collapsible baking pad

A package for dough products, comprising:

• a) a tray defining an interior storage space;
• b) a collapsible baking pad disposed within the interior storage space of the tray in an initial nested condition for shipping, said collapsible baking pad having an upper surface supporting a plurality of dough products, said collapsible baking pad being adapted for movement from said initial nested condition to a flattened condition separated from the tray for baking the plurality of dough products supported thereon;
• wherein the baking pad includes at least two conjoined sections divided by a medial fold line, each of the sections including a central surface area supporting at least one dough product of the plurality of dough products;
• wherein the central surface area of each section of the baking pad is bounded by a pair of spaced apart lateral fold lines extending parallel to one another and to the medial fold line dividing the two conjoined sections;
• wherein the central surface area of each section of the baking pad is divided by a central crease line that extends perpendicular to the spaced apart lateral fold lines to divide each central surface area into a pair of spaced apart conjoined side surface areas, each supporting a dough product of the plurality of dough products;
• and
• wherein the each of the spaced apart side surface areas is bounded in part by a lateral crease line that extends parallel to the central crease line.