vessel having an outlet and an open top an enrober head mount registered with the open top of the vessel and a pump arranged to pump cleaning medium from the vessel to an applicator for application to enrober head elements requiring cleaning the mount is adapted to attach an enrober head to the vessel such that when an enrober head is removed from an enrober and mounted on the apparatus cleaning medium applied to elements of the enrober head can pass through those elements through the mount and open top and back into the vessel cleaning the enrober head elements and allowing the cleaning medium to be reapplied application_number US 30052302 A description the present invention is described herein as an apparatus and method for cleaning a coating mass such as chocolate from the elements of an enrober head however as will be recognized by those of ordinary skill in the art the present invention may be used for cleaning materials other than chocolate that can be applied using an enrober head from the enrober such as compound coating frosting and caramel therefore as used herein any use of the term u201c coating mass u201d is intended to include any coating mass having rheological properties similar to chocolate frosting compound coating and caramel such that the mass can be applied with an enrober the present invention is directed to an enrober head cleaning apparatus for cleaning enrober heads that are separable from an enrober base a typical enrober having a separable head such as those available from sollich gmbh bad salzuften.