| 摘要 |
<p>This invention is a shelled confectionery product, e.g. a chocolate-shelled biscuit, which is contained in a self-supporting receptacle in which it has been formed into shape. The receptacle, which forms the packaging for the product, is suitably formed from a thermoformable plastics material, e.g. of wall thickness in the range 150 to 1200 mu m. A process for making the confectionery product comprises thermoforming a plurality of cavities (10) in a sheet of plastics material (1), charging each of the cavities with a predetermined amount of a flowable edible material such as chocolate (15), applying a cooling plunger (17) to the edible material in each cavity to cause it to flow and fill the space between the plunger and the cavity, allowing the edible material to assume a temperature such that it forms a substantially self-supporting shell (18), withdrawing the cooling plunger (17) therefrom, charging the shell (18) with further consumable material (19), and separating the filled cavities from the sheet of plastics material. <IMAGE></p> |
