20120007264 | ICE CAKE MAKING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An ice cake forming apparatus is provided. The ice cake forming apparatus may include a pair of molds formed from a material having a relatively high heat conductivity such as aluminum and so on, and guide rods which guide mutual freely separating and approaching of the pair of molds. Separating and joining surfaces of the pair of molds may be provided with molding concavities respectively and appropriately, and the apparatus may be so constituted that an appropriate blank ice lump is melted at portions contacting to the molds, utilizing a temperature difference between the molds at a temperature equal to or lower than a normal temperature and the blank ice lump, and a desired shape of molded ice cake can be molded by the molding concavities due solely to a heat held in the molds. | 01-12-2012 |