Center-Filled Cookie Machine (Ma’amoul / Date Bar)

A center-filled cookie machine is an encrusting machine that wraps an outer dough around an inner filling — date paste, jam, chocolate, or nut fillings — and forms it into sealed, uniform pieces.

Reference illustration of Center-Filled Cookie Machine (Ma’amoul / Date Bar)

Product Overview

It is the essential equipment for producers of ma’amoul, date bars, filled cookies, and stuffed pastries who need consistent filling ratios and clean sealing at commercial speed.

The Wanttone center-filled cookie machine combines a dough hopper and one or two filling hoppers with co-extrusion dies, supporting four forming methods: twisting, stuffing (encrusting), strip cutting, and wire cutting. That means one machine can produce round filled ma’amoul, extruded and cut date bars, twisted filled cookies, and two-color stuffed varieties — with servo-driven accuracy and touch-screen control of every parameter.

Raw filled cookie portions resting on the original stainless-steel receiving surface beneath the forming outlet

Capabilities & Applications

Key Features

  • Precise Encrusting Technology

    Co-extrusion dies wrap dough evenly around date paste, jam, or nut fillings, delivering a consistent dough-to-filling ratio and reliable sealing with no leakage during baking.

  • Four Forming Methods in One

    Twisting, stuffing, strip cutting, and wire cutting let you run ma’amoul, date bars, and filled cookies on a single platform.

  • Commercial Production Speeds

    Up to 50 encrusting cycles per minute, 100 strip cuts/min, 100 wire cuts/min, and 35 twists/min, synchronized with your oven.

  • Controlled Weight Deviation

    ±4% for single-color dough and ±5% for two-color products (checked every 5 pieces) protect margins on costly filling ingredients.

  • Double-Filling Capability

    Optional dual filling hoppers produce two-color or double-filled products for premium ranges.

  • Hygienic and Easy to Maintain

    SUS304 stainless rollers, Teflon-treated flow channels, food-grade nylon filling dies, and a mold trolley for quick changeover and cleaning.

Applications

  • Purpose-built for ma’amoul (Middle Eastern date cookies), date bars and fig bars, jam-filled cookies, chocolate-center cookies, nut-filled pastries, and two-color encrusted specialties. Ideal for Middle Eastern and Mediterranean bakeries industrializing traditional recipes, snack bar manufacturers, private-label filled-cookie producers, and multi-product factories serving festive and seasonal markets.

A Defined Role in the Line

  1. Upstream Requirements

    Confirm the incoming material or product condition, target throughput, infeed height and available utilities.

  2. Core Machine Function

    Co-extrusion dies wrap dough evenly around date paste, jam, or nut fillings, delivering a consistent dough-to-filling ratio and reliable sealing with no leakage during baking.

  3. Downstream Integration

    Match discharge height, line speed, control signals, guarding and cleaning access with the next operation.

Specifications & Configuration

Technical Parameters for Center-Filled Cookie Machine (Ma’amoul / Date Bar)
ItemSpecification
Available Models (Working Width)600 / 800 / 1,000 / 1,200 / 1,500 / 1,800 mm
Die Spacing58.5–60 mm (by model)
Forming MethodsTwisting, stuffing (encrusting), strip cutting, wire cutting
Max Operating SpeedTwist 35/min; stuffing 50/min; strip cut 100/min; wire cut 100/min
Dough Weight ToleranceSingle color ±4%; two color ±5% (per 5 pieces)
ControlPLC touch screen, servo-driven rollers and pumps
Power Supply380 V/50 Hz (customizable)

Production speed is determined by line oven length and baking time. Custom molds for ma’amoul patterns and bar cross-sections are available.

The Wanttone Difference

Filled products demand both mechanical precision and recipe know-how — date paste viscosity, dough extensibility, and sealing behavior all interact. Wanttone engineers test encrusting setups with real fillings in our own food factory before delivery, drawing on 40+ years of biscuit machinery experience since 1981 and our in-house Foodstuff Machinery Research Institute. With ISO 9001 quality management, custom mold design for traditional ma’amoul patterns, and a one-stop service covering factory design, commissioning, operator training, and lifetime maintenance, we help you industrialize heritage recipes without losing their authentic character.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can this machine make ma’amoul and date bars?

Yes. It is designed for encrusted products: round stamped ma’amoul, extruded and strip-cut date bars, fig bars, and other filled cookies, using interchangeable molds.

What fillings can it handle?

Date paste, fig paste, fruit jams, chocolate, and nut-based fillings. Filling hoppers and pumps are selected to match your filling viscosity and particle size.

How is the dough-to-filling ratio controlled?

Servo-driven dough and filling pumps are adjusted independently from the touch screen, so the ratio is set digitally and stays consistent across production.

What production speed can I expect?

Up to 50 encrusting cycles per minute (100/min for strip and wire cutting). Final throughput depends on product weight, oven length, and baking time.

Can you make custom ma’amoul molds with traditional patterns?

Yes. Provide samples or drawings and we will manufacture custom dies and stamping molds reproducing your traditional designs.