PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new rice cake producing technique capable of greatly decreasing the quantity of waste discharged when consuming, and demonstrating excellent effect for offering round mirror-shaped rice cakes excellent in productivity in each process of filling, forming and mold release.SOLUTION: A rice cake forming template 1 is made of a relatively thin flat plate 2 with flexibility. The rice cake forming template 1 is such that a plurality of caved parts 3 which have a hemispheric shape corresponding to the external form of a posture made by upsetting a round mirror-shaped rice cake and facing upward the bottom thereof and whose surface corresponding to the bottom is controlled to be the same surface as the upper surface 21 of the flat plate 2 are unitedly formed on all of a plurality of places almost evenly arranged at appropriate intervals on the plate arrangement. Furthermore, every prescribed amount of just pounded rice cake 5 is filled in each of the caved parts 3 rice cakes are formed through sticking lower sides and surrounding surfaces excluding the top of a plurality of rice cake materials 5 to the hemispheric shaped container-like shape of the caved parts 3 by gravity or application of pressure, and twist transformation in an allowable elastic deformation zone is applied to the upset flat plate 2 so as to release each round rice cake 5 after hardening from the mold.COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT【課題】 消費に際して排出されるゴミを大幅に減量化することができ、しかも充填、成型、離型の各工程における生産性に秀れた鏡餅の提供に秀れた効力を発揮する新たな餅の製造技術を提供する。【解決手段】 可撓性を有する比較的薄い平板体2からなり、その平面配置上において適宜間隔を置いた略均等配置となる複数箇所全てに、鏡餅を上下転倒して同底面を上向きとした姿勢の外形に合致する穹窿形状であり、当該底面相当面が平板体2の上面21と同一面となるよう規制した陥没部3,3,……を一体成形してなり、搗き立ての餅5の所定量ずつを、各陥没部3,3,……に充填し、重力または加圧によって各餅種5,5,……の天面を除く下面および周壁面を、陥没部3,3,……の穹窿型器状形に密着させて成型し、硬化後の各丸餅5,5,……を、上下反転させた平板体2に、許容弾性変形域内の捩り変形を加えて離型、可能としてなる餅成型用型板1である。【選択図】 図1
