Abstract: A process and apparatus for forming a cup-shaped skin for a skin-enveloped food, in which a dough strip of predetermined width and thickness and a suitable extensibility is extruded through a hole of a plate by an inverted frusto-conical or pyramidal die. The extruded dough envelope is received on a vertically displaceable lifting plate of a shaping cup, where stuffing and sealing of the dough envelope may then be performed. The extruding die and the hole of the plate are so dimensioned that the resulting dough envelope will have a thickness gradient which tapers from a thicker central base portion to a thinner peripheral upper portion.