def METHOD_NAME(recipe_root_path: str = None, profile: str = None) -> Dict[str, Any]:
    """
    Obtains a dictionary representation of the configuration for the specified recipe.
    :param recipe_root_path: The absolute path of the recipe root directory on the local
                               filesystem. If unspecified, the recipe root directory is
                               resolved from the current working directory, and an
    :param profile: The name of the profile under the `profiles` directory to use,
                    e.g. "dev" to use configs from "profiles/dev.yaml"
    :raises MlflowException: If the specified ``recipe_root_path`` is not a recipe root
                             directory or if ``recipe_root_path`` is ``None`` and the current
                             working directory does not correspond to a recipe.
    :return: The configuration of the specified recipe.
    """
    recipe_root_path = recipe_root_path or get_recipe_root_path()
    _verify_is_recipe_root_directory(recipe_root_path=recipe_root_path)
    try:
        if profile:
            # Jinja expects template names in posixpath format relative to environment root,
            # so use posixpath to construct the relative path here.
            profile_relpath = posixpath.join(_RECIPE_PROFILE_DIR, f"{profile}.yaml")
            profile_file_path = os.path.join(
                recipe_root_path, _RECIPE_PROFILE_DIR, f"{profile}.yaml"
            )
            if not os.path.exists(profile_file_path):
                raise MlflowException(
                    "Did not find the YAML configuration file for the specified profile"
                    f" '{profile}' at expected path '{profile_file_path}'.",
                    error_code=INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE,
                )
            return render_and_merge_yaml(
                recipe_root_path, _RECIPE_CONFIG_FILE_NAME, profile_relpath
            )
        else:
            return read_yaml(recipe_root_path, _RECIPE_CONFIG_FILE_NAME)
    except MlflowException:
        raise
    except Exception as e:
        raise MlflowException(
            "Failed to read recipe configuration. Please verify that the `recipe.yaml`"
            " configuration file and the YAML configuration file for the selected profile are"
            " syntactically correct and that the specified profile provides all required values"
            " for template substitutions defined in `recipe.yaml`.",
            error_code=INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE,
        ) from e