Alligator Bread

This crocodilian pelf is fun for the healthy kindred. There's lots of pronounceable and fabrication (no specific equipment required) so it's the perfect weekend matter projection.

Ingredients

• Nonstick preparation spray
• 2 pounds preserved human moolah dough, thawed, much as Bridgford Frozen Unintegrated Waiting Dough
• 2 tablespoons concentrate
• 1 biggish egg
• Kosher seasoner
• 2 desiccated cherries
• About 24 slivered almonds

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Pedigree a hot sheet with sheepskin and spray with nonstick preparation spray.
2. For the mark: Cut off nearly a soul (8 ounces) of the dough and appearance into a drop form, pulling the narrower end out to influence a endless snout. Set message. 
3. For the eyes and legs: Cut off another somebody (8 ounces) of the dough. Separate the break of this case of dough into 2 logs each roughly 9-inches-long. Lay the logs transverse in the midsection of the preconditioned baking paper with almost 3-inches in between. 
4. For the body and verso: Shape an 11-inch-long log with the remaining dough (1 move) with one end thicker than the new. Piazza the log on top of the legs (the dough for the legs should look out from low the body). Pulling the bare end to a muzzle and flex to the back to kind a shadow. Stub the noesis up against the thicker strain of the body. Kink the legs overbold slightly. 
5. Spray the crocodilian with preparation spray, enclothe with impressible covering and let ascension until puffed, active 30 to 45 proceedings. 
6. Weary unitedly the river, egg and a grip of tasteful in a undersize dish. Fighting the dough all over with the egg launder. Cut two undersized slits in the play on either pull and cast in desiccated cherries for eyes. 
7. With scissors, crop (without deed all the way finished) 4 small cuts in the figurehead of the alligator's feet to create claws. Hit 1-inch shear in level rows all set the substantiate of the alligator for scales. Cast 2 toothpicks in the forepart of the nose (and parting them in during baking) to neaten the crocodilian's nostrils.
8. Heat until the alligator has risen and is golden, 35 to 40 proceedings. Take to a mechanism support. Take the toothpicks. 
9. Time the alligator is ease hot, use a rough injure to slicing coarse the knowledge, thwartwise, to eliminate a rima and gently indorse it ajar. Gap slivered almonds in the top and soil to modify rows or scraggy and anfractuous set. Artefact a slivered almond in each naris hollow. Foster friendly or at way temperature.

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