Patent ID: 7597917

Claim:
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; and (6) packaging the shaped bread snack.