Shaped snacks made from baked dough crumbs
AssigneeKraft Foods R & D, Inc.
InventorOlaf Kortum
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process for making shaped bread snacks comprising the steps of grinding baked dough material having a water activity of 0.85 to 0.99 into crumbs, optionally mixing the crumbs with small amounts of common food ingredients, heating the crumbs or the crumb mixture to a temperature in the range of about 70° C. to 80° C. and readjusting the water activity to about the value of the original baked dough material, hot moulding the crumbs or crumb mixture to a snack carrier of any desired shape, filling the snack carrier with a sweet, savory or any other filling, and packaging the obtained shaped bread snack and to the shaped bread snacks obtainable by this process.
Claims12
A process for making shaped bread snacks, said process comprising the steps of:
- (1) grinding a baked dough material into crumbs, wherein the baked dough material has a water activity of 0.85 to 0.99;
- (2) optionally mixing the crumbs with food ingredients to form a crumb mixture;
- (3) heating the crumbs of step (1) or the crumb mixture of step (2) to a temperature in the range of about 70° C. about 80° C. and readjusting the water activity to about the value of the baked dough material used in step (1);
- (4) hot moulding the crumbs or crumb mixture of step (3) using a static pressure of about 4 to about 8 bar to form a snack carrier having a desired shape;
- (5) filling the snack carrier with a filling to form the shaped bread snack;
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- (6) packaging the shaped bread snack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.