A dough cutting apparatus is disclosed including a plurality of dough cutting
members
(6), each of which is adapted for cutting a desired shape out of a strip
of dough. Each dough cutting member is spaced apart from an adjacent cutting member
by a predetermined distance so that when each cutting member cuts a dough cut-out
from the strip of dough, there is a relatively narrow web (101) of waste
dough produced in the region between adjacent dough cutting members. There is also
a waste dough web removing apparatus (50) which has a plurality of fingers
(51, 52, 53) for urging the waste dough web upwardly for separation from
the dough cut-outs.