Patent ID: 6790467
Filing Date: 2004-09-14
Classification: A21D

Abstract:
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.