A holder for a frozen confection, such as an ice cream stick, or the like, which serves to hold the frozen confection in an upright position. The holder includes a trough-like upper dish which is slotted to maintain the stick of the frozen confection in an upright position, and which is shaped to catch any drips from the frozen confection as it melts. The dish fits into the open end of a cylindrical base, and it is apertured so that the collected drips from the frozen confection flow into a rese...

An ice cream, confection comprising a frozen composition containing particles having a sweetener core encapsulated in a butterfat coating. A process of producing a frozen ice cream confection comprising mixing together a solid or semi-solid aerated composition comprising non-fat milk protein and ice crystals and particles having a sweetener core encapsulated in a butterfat coating at a temperature wherein there is substantially no melting of the ice crystals.

A multi-layered chewing gum is prepared using layers of chewing gum sandwiched about a layer or layers of a hydrophilic gel-creme confection. The multi-layered confection affords an up-front taste sensation provided by the hydrophilic components of the gel-creme with a subsequent onset of longer lasting, sustained flavor provided by the chewing gum composition. The layered confection also provides an initial soft chewing texture which converts to that of a standard chewing gum after several minu...

A serving kit and package for confections includes an unfilled ice cream cone nested in the bottom of a conformally shaped conical jacket which is scored for separation along an annular line located below the rim of the ice cream cone. The upper end of the cone jacket is shaped to receive a snap-on lid, the latter being supplied together with a spoon or other eating utensil to complete the serving kit. Frozen dessert above the cone rim can be eaten with the spoon and then the package can be sepa...

A method and apparatus for producing confection bars in which a unitary cutting element is periodically passed transversely across a length of confection mix being extruded from a downwardly facing extruder nozzle positioned over a conveyer with the cutting element being supported and caused to move through the extruded length from one side to the other in a plane intersecting the plane of the conveyer immediately below the nozzle at an acute angle, the reciprocating single cutter element and th...

An apparatus and method for applying enrobing material to confections, particularly applicable to frozen confections, wherein freshly produced confections emerging continuously in seriatim from a confection producing equipment are segregated into groups of a predetermined number of abutting confections arranged on the feed conveyer in a line behind a stop. A pusher bar, extending parallel to and along one side of the line of confections, pushes the line of abutting confections transversely of th...

An indexed conveyor carries transverse rows of molds beneath a manifold block. The manifold block is connected by hoses to a pair of dispersing units each of which has two reservoirs. Thus a fill pattern of four different flavors can be set up for each row of molds.

An extrusion nozzle for manufacturing in a continuous flow process a variety of external shapes of frozen confections or the like. A portion of the periphery of the extrusion nozzle orifice is formed of a flexible deformable wall material, the shape of this wall being controlled by the state of actuation of a series of air cylinders which indent it when actuated. Individual internal features or an array of internal features may be moved to different lateral positions during manufacture.

An apparatus for making a frozen confection and having a refrigerated cylinder with a piston which reciprocates therein. The piston carries a sprayer which sprays a flavoured liquid medium on the inner surface of the cylinder during movement in one direction and scrapes the resultant frozen confection from the cylinder during movement in the other direction. The sprayer is fed through a passage in the piston from an arrangement which responds to movement of the piston to discharge the flavoured ...

A frozen ice confection of fixed shape is described which has its opacity controlled in relation of the temperature of the confection. The confection may also have an imbedded indicia which becomes view able as the transparency of this frozen confection increases.