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AssigneeNestec S.A.
InventorsDieter Blaschke, Peter Nairn, Merrie Martin, Eugene Scoville, Jennifer Cramer, Karl Christian Fuchs
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A ready-for-use refrigerated sweet dough which is prepared from flour, sugar, a leavening agent and fat, and which is provided in a form that includes grooves, score lines, or a combination thereof, to facilitate separation of the dough into pieces that can be baked into individual bakery products such as cookies, muffins, brownies, or other pastries. A method for providing individually baked products comprising the steps of providing an uncooked dough sheet or block which has separable portions of predefined shape, separating one or more portions from the sheet or block and then baking the portions to obtain individually baked products. The shapes of the portions are defined by grooves, score lines or combinations thereof and the portions are separated from the sheet by breaking them along the grooves or score lines. The grooves or score lines may be intersecting or non-intersecting and substantially straight to define polygonal shaped portions, or at least partially arcuate to define the shape of an object having non-linear features, such as a cartoon character.
A ready-for-use refrigerated sweet dough which is prepared from flour, sugar, a leavening agent in an amount from up to about 3% by weight and a fat, with the dough being in a sheet or block form having a thickness and a surface which includes an imprint of grooves, score lines, or combinations thereof, which imprint defines pieces of the dough to be broken off and baked, wherein the grooves, score lines, or combinations thereof each have a width of from about 0.5% to about 50% of the thickness of the dough sheet or block and a depth of about 3% to about 95% of the thickness of the dough sheet or block.
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