My second attempt at a buttercream cake. The first was a disaster, I don't even have a photo of it! This one I liked because it mimicked the stucco on the wall behind it. The wedding was fabulous at L'auberge du pommier in Toronto. I actually brought the cake from Montreal in a cooler and the groom helped me make the buttercream the night before. We had to knock in the center dowel using a polish sausage because we couldn't find a mallet. The orchids are real. The cake was a pistachio-almond cake with pistachio buttercream filling and vanilla bean buttercream on the outside.