The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a message for anyone eating raw cake batter: Stop. Health officials have traced a multi-state Escherichia coli (E.Coli) outbreak to cake mix.

Raw cake batter can be chock full of (as well as chocolate full of) not so friendly bacteria such as E. coli and Salmonella. (Photo: Getty) Cake by the ocean may be OK. Raw cake batter by the ocean, ...

Dipping a spoon into a bowl of raw chocolate chip cookie dough or licking beaters coated in cake batter is a core memory of childhood baking for many people. So is hearing, “You shouldn’t eat that; it ...