Abstract: An apparatus for processing a food product includes an ingredient station for providing ingredients into the food product; an impingement freezer downstream from the ingredient station for reducing a temperature of a surface of the food product to provide a frozen crust at said surface to retain the ingredients in the food product and adapt the food product to retain deformation to a select shape; and a press excluding a cutter disposed downstream of the impingement freezer for pressing the food product to the select shape, wherein the frozen crust retains the select shape of and the ingredients in the food product. A method for processing the food product is also provided.