Cookie Depositor Machine

A cookie depositor machine is an automatic forming machine that portions soft cookie dough through nozzles directly onto trays or a baking band, creating dropped, extruded, and rotary-shaped cookies.

Reference illustration of Cookie Depositor Machine

Product Overview

It is the go-to solution for bakeries and cookie factories that want to produce a wide variety of shapes — butter cookies, jam center cookies, spritz, and fancy decorative styles — with one compact, flexible machine.

The Wanttone cookie depositor combines direct extrusion, rotary extrusion, and optional wire-cut functions in a single unit. Servo-driven groove rollers and metering pumps control every nozzle independently, while the PLC touch screen stores recipes and adjusts roller speed, pump feed, and cutting parameters — delivering shape-perfect cookies with only ±4% weight deviation and a 98% qualified rate.

Finished piped cookie showing its ridged deposited shape
Deposited cookie example
Rows of cookies on the belt entering the baking section
Cookies at the oven infeed

Capabilities & Applications

Key Features

  • Three Forming Modes in One Machine

    Single-row direct extrusion, rotary extrusion, and wire cutting cover dropped cookies, shaped spritz, and sliced styles without separate machines.

  • Independent Nozzle Metering

    Each discharge nozzle is metered by its own pump channel, keeping every cookie uniform in weight, size, and appearance across the full working width.

  • Servo + PLC Recipe Control

    Roller speed, pump extrusion speed, lifting, and travel movements are servo-driven and set via a touch screen, with recipe storage for fast product changeovers.

  • Wide Mold Library

    POM dies for circular, princess, and butterfly shapes; stainless steel dies for classic butter cookies; copper dies for decorative finishes — plus fully custom molds.

  • Fast Disassembly for Cleaning

    Worm-gear pump clamping and eccentric die locks allow tool-free removal of the pump and die assemblies, with a mold trolley for safe handling.

  • Hygienic Food-Grade Build

    7075 aluminum alloy head plates with Teflon treatment, SUS304 stainless rollers, and food-grade POM pump teeth meet modern bakery hygiene requirements.

Applications

  • Suitable for butter cookies, jam-filled and thumbprint cookies, spritz and piped cookies, decorative fancy cookies, and soft-dough pastry products. Typical users include medium- and large-scale bakeries, confectionery producers, hotel and catering central kitchens, cookie factories adding SKU variety, and OEM manufacturers producing multiple brands on one line.

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

    Single-row direct extrusion, rotary extrusion, and wire cutting cover dropped cookies, shaped spritz, and sliced styles without separate machines.

  3. Downstream Integration

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

Specifications & Configuration

Technical Parameters for Cookie Depositor Machine
Item60080010001200
Working Width600 mm800 mm1,000 mm1,200 mm
Nozzles per Row10121620
Two-Row Single-Color Deposit20243240
Dimensions (L×W×H, mm)2,100×2,000×1,8502,100×2,200×1,8502,100×2,400×1,8502,100×2,600×1,850
Weight Deviation±4% (per 5 cookies)±4%±4%±4%
Qualified Rate98%98%98%98%
Power Supply380 V/50 Hz (customizable)———

Depositing speed up to 70–100 strokes/min depending on mode; total installed power approx. 5–13 kW per configuration. Output scales with oven length and baking time. A mini 400 mm tray-type model is also available.

The Wanttone Difference

Cookie depositors live or die by mold design and dough behavior — and Wanttone tests both in-house. As a manufacturer that also produces its own branded cookies, we run depositor trials with real butter-cookie and jam-cookie recipes before your machine ships, and we can develop custom nozzle and mold shapes from your product samples. With roots in the 1981 Yangjiang Biscuit Equipment General Factory, ISO 9001 quality control, and a dedicated Foodstuff Machinery Research Institute, Wanttone backs every depositor with recipe R&D, installation, training, and lifetime after-sales service.

Frequently Asked Questions

What cookies can a cookie depositor machine make?

Dropped butter cookies, spritz and piped shapes, jam-center and thumbprint cookies, and decorative fancy cookies. Rotary nozzles create twisted and ring shapes; molds are interchangeable.

What is the difference between a cookie depositor and a wire-cut machine?

A depositor extrudes soft dough through nozzles into shaped drops, while a wire-cut machine slices stiffer dough with a wire. Our combo models offer both functions in one unit.

How consistent is the cookie weight?

Independent pump metering keeps weight deviation within ±4% (checked every 5 cookies), with a 98% qualified rate.

How fast can I switch between cookie types?

Recipes are stored in the PLC; pump and die assemblies release via handwheel clamps, and a mold trolley assists swaps — typical changeovers take minutes, not hours.

Can you make custom molds for my cookie design?

Yes. Send us drawings or product samples and our mold workshop will produce custom POM, stainless steel, or copper dies matched to your shape and weight targets.