An edible bread cup and an apparatus and method for making edible bread cups is disclosed. The apparatus for molding and baking dough into an edible cup has a top and a bottom molding sheet. The bottom molding sheet has several cup-shaped female molds for receiving several identically shaped male molds built into the top molding sheet. Dough is flattened into patties and is rested in the female molds, after which the male molds are lowered into the female molds, thereby shaping the dough to the cup-shape of the molds. Guiding rods on the top sheet slide into guiding tubes on the bottom sheet in order to align the sheets before the molds come into contact. After the sheets are brought together, clamps are secured around the edges of the sheets to hold the sheets together. The dough is baked while between the sheets, which causes the dough to rise and fill the cup-shaped void between the molds. Air is pressed out of this void, either through air release pinholes or through canal grooves built into the top and bottom sheets. After the baking is complete, the clamps are removed and the sheets are separated, after which the finished bread cups may be removed for packaging.
