Abstract: A method and an apparatus for producing baked goods in a predefined shape are described, wherein a piece of dough is baked in a closed mold cavity (5) after a rising in direct succession with heat supply, wherein the piece of dough completely fills up the mold cavity (5) with a gas displacement during the baking. To ensure advantageous baked products, it is proposed that the piece of dough, with implementation of a finely-structured crust, be applied to the gas-tight mold wall which delimits the mold cavity (5), and the gas be discharged from the mold cavity (5) in the region of depressions (8) provided in the mold wall (7), which define protrusions of the baked good projecting beyond a surface region and into which the gas is displaced by the oven rising of the piece of dough.