Alligator Coffe Cake

I do not see any special recipe for that.... You can use any suitable coffee cake recipe that is preferably a rich yeast raised sweet dough. Study ,make the dough , use the marzipan filling sprinkled with chopped nuta and bake it ... As for the butter , you can use a large part of the butter as the main fat in the dough instead of shortening and use the other part to brush the surface before spreading the filling . Or in another way you can cream the almond paste with butter, then add other ingredeints such as chopped nuts and even glaze fruits whatever you like... Roll it into cylinder and cut it scissors or sharp knife to simulate the alligator. after its baked brush with syrup was or apricot glaze or you can pipe it with sugar icing on top.

good luck!

I think the recipe was printed in the LA Times awhile back in their SOS section, although I'm not positively certain. I was looking for a recipe that I had seen in the LA Times but they were going to charge me an arm and a leg for the searching charge. I just went to the library and found it myself. They have a great search system.

Did you try searching on Google?