System and method for coating soft and sticky food cores

A method of producing coated food products comprising:

• dispensing a web of a non-solid coating material laterally across a portion of a carrier sheet provided on a conveyor unit;
• delivering a soft and sticky material upon the web;
• solidifying the coating material to form a solid web;
• transferring the soft and sticky material upon the solid web, without the carrier sheet, onto another conveyor unit;
• and
• enrobing the soft and sticky material while removing portions of the solid web between portions of the sticky material in forming the coated food products having cores of the soft and sticky material.

A system for producing coated food products comprising:

• a first conveyor unit;
• a carrier sheet located on the first conveyor unit;
• a dispensing unit configured to dispense a web of non-solid coating material across a portion of the carrier sheet;
• a delivery unit for delivering a soft and sticky material upon the web;
• a second conveyor unit configured to receive the carrier sheet, the web in solid form and the soft and sticky material on the web;
• a unit configured to create food pieces from the soft and sticky material;
• a third conveyor unit configured to receive the soft and sticky material upon the solid web, without the carrier sheet;
• and
• an enrober configured to enrobe the food pieces while portions of the solid web are removed from between the food pieces in forming the coated food products having cores of the soft and sticky material.