A huge amount of effort goes into deciding how a wedding cake should look. Neurotic brides obsess over color, shape, and even height. Everyone wants to have the perfect traditional wedding cake – the ultimate symbol of the extravagance of your wedding day and in some ways a scale version of the expensive wedding dress brides lust after from an early age. While everyone wants to have the best wedding cake this can lead to many brides overlooking an important aspect of the cake: its taste.

Those who prefer the simple elegance of white cakes needn’t settle for plain taste. There are a number of white cakes available with exceptional flavor. Increasingly popular are chocolate cakes, vanilla flavored cakes and almond flavored cakes are becoming increasingly popular. Breaking with tradition can be fun and may lead to inexpensive wedding cakes.

Breaking with tradition opens up a whole world of cake options, such as fruitcakes and carrot cakes. Covered in a thick layers of icing, these distinctive cakes have all the style of a traditional wedding cake and the decadence of a truly delicious flavor. Tiramisu, a rich Italian dessert, is a more luxurious addition to a wedding cake. Even decorated cheesecakes are growing in popularity.

Changing the type of cake isn’t the only way to add flavor and personality to a wedding cake. Many are adding different fillings to their cakes, such as fruit-flavored fillings, rich cream fillings, and even liqueur-based fillings. This adds another level of flavor to otherwise traditional seeming cakes.

Why not dispense with convention altogether and go for a fun, more memorable cake flavor? Strawberry and lemon flavors add zest to a wedding cake. Some brides even get fruity with an orange or banana flavored cake, injecting personality into what they see as a drab tradition.

Rich, flavors are also popular choices for wedding cakes. Chocolate is a popular flavor along with the less obvious Red velvet cake, Kahlua, and delicious Mexican chocolate.

Even more options exist for your choice of wedding cake icing.

Having several tiers to a traditional wedding cake provides the opportunity for more than one flavor. Many brides are choosing to mix flavors to appease all of the guests at the reception. One layer of cake could be strawberry-flavored and another flavor might be vanilla-flavored or contain a more traditional flavor to appease older guests. Or, for a mixture of flavor in each bite, brides can opt for a marble cake. Whatever your choice there is always options for wedding cakes.

Of course the look of your wedding cake is important, the photo opportunity of the cake cutting ceremony alone demands that it look it’s best. But spare some thought to its flavor too, your guests will appreciate it all the more. When a year passes and it's time to eat that frozen wedding cake you'll appreciate it as well.