Cakes, desserts & baked fillings

Processing solutions
for cakes, desserts
& baked fillings

The trusted technology partner of cake & dessert manufacturers

From high-volume industrial cake production to premium dessert and filling applications, manufacturers require precise, hygienic, and repeatable processing solutions. Whether producing sponge cakes, layered desserts, cream fillings, fruit preparations, or decorative toppings, consistent texture, weight accuracy, and product appearance are critical.

Coperion supports cake, dessert, and baked filling producers with reliable technologies for ingredient handling, automated mixing, aeration, depositing, filling, layering, coating, and decoration, enabling scalable production without compromising quality.

Our cakes, desserts & baked fillings end-product applications

  • Cheesecakes
  • Layered round cakes
  • Sheet cakes
  • Mousse cakes
  • Ice cream cakes
  • Ambient cakes
  • Pies, tarts & quiche
  • Donuts
  • Crumpets, pancakes & waffles
  • Frozen cakes & desserts
  • Frozen pies and desserts
  • Premium frozen desserts

A focus on batch consistency & product quality

Precision ingredient handling and mixing

Even small deviations in ingredient ratios or mixing parameters can affect cake volume, crumb structure, mouthfeel, and shelf life. For cakes, desserts, and baked fillings, precise control over formulation and processing is essential.

Controlled aeration & temperature management

Cake batters, creams, and fillings are highly sensitive to temperature and shear. Excessive mechanical or thermal stress can compromise aeration, emulsion stability, and final product structure.

Automated handling for accuracy and hygiene

Automated bowl handling and integrated material transfer reduce manual intervention, improving hygiene and process repeatability. Solutions such as rail-guided systems or Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs).

Commercial and industrial technologies for cakes & desserts

Accurate ingredient dosing and controlled mixing are essential for consistent batter structure, aeration, and texture. Coperion offers one of the world’s most comprehensive portfolios of commercial and industrial technologies for cake, dessert, and baked filling production, supporting everything from standalone machines to fully integrated lines.

Batter and cream mixers (learn more)

  • Vertical batter and cream mixers
  • Horizontal batter and cream mixers
  • Continuous batter and cream mixers

Cake and fillings depositor (learn more)

Coperion provides precision depositing solutions for cake batters, creams, fillings, toppings, and layered desserts. These systems ensure portion accuracy, product uniformity, and cost control across manual, semi-automatic, and fully automated lines.

Technologies from Unifiller and Bakon, supporting filling, layering, topping, and portioning across a wide range of cake and dessert applications.

Spraying & decoration (learn more)

Finishing defines the visual appeal and differentiation of cakes and desserts. Automated spraying, enrobing, dipping, and drizzling solutions enable precise application of glazes, syrups, chocolate, and decorative coatings with minimal waste.

Technologies from Unifiller and Bakon ensure consistent finishing quality while improving productivity and repeatability. Alternatively, the ACIS line offers flexibility for both standalone stations and integrated production systems.

Slicing & cutting (learn more)

Through its technology brand Bakon, Coperion provides slicing and cutting solutions for cakes, desserts, and baked products. These systems deliver clean, precise cuts and consistent portioning across fresh, sticky, and frozen applications.

Technologies for cakes and pastries

Supporting technologies help reduce downtime, improve hygiene, and maximise productivity across cake and dessert production lines.

Bakery depositors (learn more)

Designed to precisely control doses and automate operations like filling and layering. Unifiller and Bakon offer a full range of cake automation solutions for your pastry and and cake operations. From individual stations to full cake automated lines.

Spraying of ingredient and release-agents (learn more)

Prepare for baking and automate the spraying of release agents with our first-class spraying machines by Bakon.

Elevate your products with delicious enrobing and decoration

Give the final touch! Our automated enrobers, dippers and drizzlers, available from Bakon and Unifiller, provide the finish required to elevate your final product.

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Press releases
Introducing the HIRO Cake Decorating Robot

Coperion is excited to announce a significant evolution in its brand identity that aims to enhance the experience for its customers, employees and wider stakeholders.

 
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Success stories
Generating efficiencies for the bakery industry

Kemutec provides quality and safety in baking applications through sifting solutions.

 

More about our cake, desserts and baked filling applications

An unmatched global network of technology brands

Aside from our main Coperion brand, we also gather the application expertise and manufacturing capabilities of 9 globally recognized bakery industry leaders. This global network of experts, test centers and manufacturing capabilities is unparalleled in the cakes, desserts & baked fillings industry and ensures we can support your bakery with total solutions.

The Coperion difference

Tailored solutions
Test kitchens to match your recipe to local tastes, custom manufacturing and expert integration of our technology into your facility.

Compliance certification guaranteed
Technology ATEX type certified for Zone 20 internally and 21 externally, and EU Food Compliant (EC) No 1935/2004.

Gentler handling
Our mixers, rounders and formers are designed to reduce dough damage to reduce waste and maintain the highest quality.

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