Patents Represented by Law Firm Norris, McLanghlin & Marcus
  • Ready-to-bake shelf-stable cake dough and process for its manufacture
    Patent number: 6039994
    Abstract: A ready-to-bake, shelf-stable cake dough consisting essentially of flour, fat, sugar, eggs and water and usual dough additives and comprising a leavening system, the dough having a water activity of below 0.85 and being packed in an essentially gas-impermeable pouch in an atmosphere of an inert gas containing less than 4%, preferably less than 2% residual oxygen. A process for the manufacture of such a dough is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Bestfoods
    Inventors: Rene LeFlecher, Peter Robson