Lynn, also known in the blogging world as The Gluten Free Gastronaut, knows how to bake a cake that’s out of this world :). As a gastronaut, she’s explored galaxies of flavor combinations that are truly stellar. For instance, how do you take two of my personal favorite sweets and combine them into one big bang of a dessert? You make a cake, a Baklava Opera Cake.

Lynn didn’t take any shortcuts when she adapted her cake recipe, in fact, she went above and beyond the call of duty and made it gluten-free. She replaced the flour with xanthum gum and baking powder. So if you’re not on a gluten-free diet, you can go ahead and add the flour back in but omit the other two ingredients, as she explains.

But I imagine I wouldn’t be missing the flour if I took a bit out of Lynn’s cake, I’d be too busy getting lost in the deep flavors of cardamom mixed with pistachios resting in a cakey layer of sweetness and buttercream…drenched in a sweet honey syrup…and… Yep, that’s quite a bit to get lost in! I’d say it’s much better than getting lost in space :).