Almond Coffee Ring from Bern

This recipe comes from my friend the expert baker, caterer, and cooking teacher Thea Cvijanovich, who lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Thea and I met in the late 1980s when she was the director of a now-defunct cooking school in Winston-Salem. She is a native of Bern, Switzerland, and has been living in the United Sates for more than 40 years. In Thea’s family this is known as N