Left-Over Cake?

When I made that delicious dark chocolate Hershey's cake, I only had two 8-inch round pans, rather than 9-inch ones, so I made a small loaf cake as well. I realized that I should do this more often for two reasons: The obvious reason and the less-obvious reason. The obvious reason is this:

It's a delicious snack!

The less-obvious reason is that it allowed me to avoid the problem I run into with cakes all the time: I can't taste them before hand to make sure they aren't terrible! True, I can taste the part I cut off from the bottom layer to even it out, but with this cake I actually did not need to even the bottom layer out. I was also able to taste multiple bites with the frosting at various stages of making it. That allowed me to get just the taste I was looking for (as much of a burden as eating bites of cake and frosting is!). Point being, if you have extra batter, make and extra cake ;)