Abstract: A machine for producing small dumplings having the shape of helically-grooved spindles, so-called "troffiette", comprising a feeding unit designed to produce roundish raw dumplings from a pre-worked dough and to feed them sequentially to a co-operating forming unit which, first, turns them into plain dough-spindles and, then, into "troffiette" proper, characterized in that said feeding unit comprises a dough-receiving hopper including therein a screw-feeder designed to progressively advance said dough to at least one extruder funnel communicating with the body of said hopper and adapted to expel said dough in the shape of a continuous rod which is cut into pieces by a rotary cutter member arranged at the outlet of said extruder funnel, said pieces constituting the raw dumplings which are sequentially fed through a suitable chute to a conveyor belt exactly at the inlet of the forming tunnel.