Ready to bake dough with shaped, coextruded filling and method of making same
AssigneeNestec S.A.
InventorsKathleen Kostival, Robert E. Ross, Jerry T. Yoakum
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Abstract
A ready to bake dough product with a shaped filling is disclosed. The filling is sized and configured so as to minimize or avoid exposure or spilling during processing, handling, or baking. The shape of the filling is configured such that it has a shorter distance vertically than horizontally. The shape of the filling may be substantially in the form of a rectangle, triangle, pentagon, hexagon, half circle, diamond, trapezoid, oval, or similar shapes.
Claims21
A ready-for-use dough product comprising a liquid, creamy, or pasty filling and dough surrounding the filling, the dough having a top portion, a bottom portion, and side portions, with the filling being readily flowable at a baking temperature and not flowable under refrigerated or frozen conditions, and being arranged to minimize oozing or dripping thereof out of the surrounding dough at the baking temperature by being sized and configured to have a shape that is shorter in distance vertically from the bottom portion to the top portion than horizontally between the side portions, when the dough is viewed in cross-section wherein said dough product is a bakery dough to form one or more of muffins, crackers, rolls, biscuits, pie crust, breads, pizza doughs or bagels.
A method for providing a filled dough product which comprises:
- providing a liquid, creamy, or pasty filling that is readily flowable at a baking temperature and not flowable under refrigerated or frozen conditions, disposed within a dough having a top portion, a bottom portion, and side portions with the filling being arranged to minimize oozing or dripping thereof out of the dough at the baking temperature by being sized and configured to have a shape that is shorter in distance vertically from the bottom portion to the top portion than horizontally between the side portions when the dough is viewed in cross-section to provide the filled dough product wherein said filled dough product is a bakery dough to form one or more of muffins, crackers, rolls, biscuits, pie crust, breads, pizza doughs or bagels.
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