Apparatus and method for making a food items such as a shepherd's pies is disclosed. The method includes preparing, cooking and cooling a pie filling, placing a predetermined amount of individual serving portions of the cooled pie filling into a container, preparing and cooking mashed potatoes, and extruding a predetermined individual serving portion of the mashed potatoes into each of a plurality of compartments formed in a mold tray, the compartments having a predetermined shape and depth. The pie filling and the mashed potatoes in the mold tray compartments are then frozen for storage and transportation. The shepherd's pies can then be assembled and baked at the point-of-sale.

Apparatus and method for making a food items such as a shepherd's pies is disclosed. The method includes preparing, cooking and cooling a pie filling, placing a predetermined amount of individual serving portions of the cooled pie filling into a container, preparing and cooking mashed potatoes, and extruding a predetermined individual serving portion of the mashed potatoes into each of a plurality of compartments formed in a mold tray, the compartments having a predetermined shape and depth. The pie filling and the mashed potatoes in the mold tray compartments are then frozen for storage and transportation. The shepherd's pies can then be assembled and baked at the point-of-sale.

Filled roll dough products, such as pizza rolls, are made with an outer dough shell with an internal filling material. Versus a conventional pizza roll, pizza rolls in accordance with the invention employs a filling material having a lower viscosity upon heating due to the removal of a majority of a viscosity altering additive (e.g., methyl cellulose) used in a conventional filling and an outer dough shell formed with spaced internal ridges which increase the structural integrity of the outer shell while not at all changing the external appearance. While removal of the viscosity altering additive from the filling material increases a blow-out rate for the product, the inclusion of the ridges decreases the blow-out rate to the extent that either a reduction or no significant change in product blow-rates is produced.

A method for manufacturing at least one cheesecake sandwich is provided. Specifically, a method of manufacturing at least one cheesecake sandwich while utilizing a plurality of single-sandwich mold is described. Each single-sandwich mold is preferably made of a flexible material which allows for easier ejection of the completed cheesecake sandwich from each of the single-sandwich mold.

A method for manufacturing at least one cheesecake sandwich is provided. Specifically, a method of manufacturing at least one cheesecake sandwich while utilizing a plurality of single-sandwich mold is described. Each single-sandwich mold is preferably made of a flexible material which allows for easier ejection of the completed cheesecake sandwich from each of the single-sandwich mold.

Kneading the yeast fermented dough in the sourdough way: the flour is poured into warm water, in which sugar, salt, yeast are diluted, the dough is matured for 20 minutes, the dough is received semi-fluid, the dough is cut on the surface with greased vegetable oil; the stuffing is prepared from offal of farm animals or poultry, with the addition in stuffing ingredients onions in an amount of 10-20% of weight of the stuffing, salts, pepper to taste and further cooking steps are carried out. The method allows to prepare products with the optimal technological characteristics having high nutritional value and organoleptic properties of softness, juiciness, creamy taste.

Kneading the yeast fermented dough in the sourdough way: the flour is poured into warm water, in which sugar, salt, yeast are diluted, the dough is matured for 20 minutes, the dough is received semi-fluid, the dough is cut on the surface with greased vegetable oil; the stuffing is prepared from offal of farm animals or poultry, with the addition in stuffing ingredients onions in an amount of 10-20% of weight of the stuffing, salts, pepper to taste and further cooking steps are carried out. The method allows to prepare products with the optimal technological characteristics having high nutritional value and organoleptic properties of softness, juiciness, creamy taste.

The invention is related to a sugar-reduced food cream composition comprising fat, sugar and starch, wherein the starch is native starch having an average particle size between 20 m and 30 m, preferably between 22 m and 28 m, even more preferably between 23 m and 26 m, with a D90 smaller than 40 m, preferably smaller than 36 m. The invention also relates to a method of preparation of a sugar-reduced food cream composition comprising the steps of: selecting a recipe of a food cream composition comprising fat and sugar, replacing between 25% to 40%, preferably 25% to 35%, more preferably about 30% by weight of the total sugar content of said food cream composition by native starch having an average particle size between 20 m and 30 m, preferably between 22 m and 28 m, even more preferably between 23 m and 26 m, with a D90 smaller than 40 m, preferably smaller than 36 m.

Soft and creamy lipid-based food fillings suitable for high-temperature, high-pressure cooking co-extrusion are provided. In one approach, the filling includes about 30 to about 45 weight percent of an edible lipid having a melting point of about 45 C. or lower, about 0.5 to about 5 weight percent of a high oil-binding capacity material having an oil-binding capacity of at least about 100%, about 10 to about 30 weight percent of amorphous materials, and less than 30 weight percent sugar, sugar alcohol, or combinations thereof. The fillings generally have a particle size distribution with D50 of about 25 microns or less. Preferably, the fillings have a low water activity of about 0.45 or less and are substantially free of polyhydric alcohols and polyhydric alcohol-based humectants. The fillings maintain their soft and creamy texture after high-temperature, high-pressure cooking co-extrusion, subsequent baking, and throughout storage.

The present invention provides a method for preparing a filled bakery product, the method comprising: providing a filling composition comprising at least one powdered food ingredient and a fat blend comprising from 15 to 67 wt. % of a temper hard fat and from 85 to 33 wt. % of a liquid oil, tempering the filling composition to form a tempered filling composition, depositing the tempered filling composition on to at least one surface of a bakery product to form a filled bakery product, wherein the surface of the bakery product has a temperature of less than 36 C., and actively cooling the deposited filling composition, wherein in the step of depositing the tempered filling composition, the tempered filling composition is deposited at a deposition temperature of from 20 to 33 C. and, in the step of actively cooling the deposited filling composition, the deposited filling composition is cooled to a temperature of at least 4 C. below the deposition temperature, wherein the temper hard fat has a solid fat content of at least 60 wt. % at 20 C., wherein the liquid oil has a solid fat content of less than 15 wt. % at 20 C., and wherein the fat blend has a saturated fatty acid residue content of from 16 to 42 wt. % and a polyunsaturated fatty acid residue content of less than 40 wt. %, based on the total weight of fatty acid residues of the fat blend.