Waiting eagerly for the beaters when my mom made a cake (and lucky me, she was a Wilton instructor!!) is one of my earliest and favorite childhood kitchen memories. I can still hear the sound of that avocado green Sunbeam mixer revving up and was so excited to run and see what she was baking!!
Of course, having three kids and but one paddle in the KA, my children and I use spoons!
Batter is better than cake, IMO. I'm glad to see there are so many enthusiastic batter lickers among us! 
That is one of my very favorite childhood memories. I loved to lick the spoon when mom made a cake, still do if i'm at her house when she makes a cake. My 4 yr old loves cake batter too. Maybe he shouldn't eat it but i'm still here and I ate an awful lot of cake batter when I was a child.
My real weakness if buttercream icing. I suck it out of the decorating tips before I wash them.
LOL!
Too funny.
Better make sure my husband doesn't see this - it'll give him ideas... 
I let my kids lick the beaters and they always ask if they can have the bowl too but I always tell them that they have had enough. When they are not looking I clean out the bowl.
I have licked the beaters and the bowl ofr almost 40 years now. No point in stopping now. I figure I have built up a resistence to any illness that would come from licking raw batter. My husband always has the dissappointed look on his face when I don't offer him a beater or bowl to lick. Now, my 12 year old daughter wants nothing to do with it at all. I can't believe that she is related to me. 
. My favorite is the icing beaters...yum...yum
I'm not much of a batter licker - just a tiny bit - and I don't care for cheesecake; however, cheesecake batter I can eat by the spoonful. Delish!!!
My real weakness if buttercream icing. I suck it out of the decorating tips before I wash them.
When I took the Wilton course, the lady that owned the Decoration for Celebration store where we took it gave us a big lecture on licking the frosting utensils. Said if she saw us suck the frosting out of the tips, she would never recommend us to anyone to decorate cakes. Needless to say, everyone would act like they were doing that behind her back. It was a hoot. I think of her everytime I clean my decorating tips (which, by the way, always go through the dishwasher).
I ended up quitting Course II because I got sick of her complaining about frosting on her floor. Good grief! There was 12 of us slopping frosting everywhere! The instructor was a sweetheart but the owner left a lot to be desired. Needless to say, I don't shop there anymore either.......... 
Diane
I'm not much of a batter licker - just a tiny bit - and I don't care for cheesecake; however, cheesecake batter I can eat by the spoonful. Delish!!!
My real weakness if buttercream icing. I suck it out of the decorating tips before I wash them.
That is too funny I felt guilty for licking every drop of icing when it get's on my hands but that is too funny. When I level my cake I save the scraps and put my left over buttecream on it and have my own reward for making a cake
Ok gals (and guys) here it is!!! The long argued theory of why raw cookie/cake batter is better than cooked:
Since raw eggs are harder for your body to process, naturally your body has to work harder to digest them. Hence raw batter is better for you than cooked because you use up more calories during the digestion process.
(came up with this during culinary arts and one of the kitchen helpers caught me and my friend eatting a small amount of cookie batter...)
Please I beg you not to argue this theory, because it has provided me with much needed assurance over my many years of batter eatting.
Joanmary... you are so right about the cheese cake batter. My best friend and i are always doing quality checks on the batter. 
**edited because my computer has a chinese character typing program that likes to interfere with my english typing**
Peachshortcake, I love the way you think. It's your story and I'll help you stick to it. I'm always looking for an easy way to burn calories. 
Wow! ths is too funny I have been wanting to ask this question since I joined CC but I was too embarrassed to ask. I was wodering if I was the only person who did this. I give the spatula to my son, the paddle to my daughter and the I lick whats left in the bowl. I wonder sometimes if I should because of the eggs but I have been doing that since I was a little girl and I think thats the fun part at least my kids look forward to that everytime I make a cake.
Jackie
Isn't it funny how we've been doing things all our lives and suddenly, we find out we're all "wrong?" I always licked the bowl as a kid. My kid licked the bowl as a kid. And I still lick it and am delighted there's no kid to share it with! LOL
I don't know anybody who's ever gotten salmonella from a raw or undercooked egg. Or anything else, for that matter. My mama used to cut up a chicken and then cut up the salad at 90 miles and hour without stopping to worry about washing chicken cooties off her hands, and nobody ever died at our house! Not that I didn't wish it on my little brother...
I figure that once you don't eat cupfuls of the stuff you're safe. Bowl licking is one of the joys of life as a child. At least in my house. My Momma licked my Grandma's bowls and I licked my Momma's bowls and if someday I have children I'm sure the joy will live on. Up to this day I have a friend who if I'm baking and I dare wash the bowl before she gets at it gives me the look of death.
I used to lick the bowl when my mother made cakes, however I do not now. My sister on the hand is a different story. As soon as my back is turned she gets a spoon and goes to town. My 4 year old nephew always has to do a quality check and I won't get started about my teenage niece and brownie batter. You would have thought she was in chocolate heaven as she licks the bowl.
I think we have to remember that we have a fear-crazy culture in America. Anything that might cause people (especially parents) to worry gets plastered all over the television. There are never any stories about the millions of people who eat raw eggs and never get sick. (Remember the bodybuilders who used to DRINK raw eggs in the seventies and eighties?)
I've never heard of any adult dying of salmonella. I think the worst thing that could happen would be you'd get a little sick to your tummy. As for the bird flu...has anyone actually GOTTEN the bird flu in the U.S.? I don't think so. Take massive doses of vitamin C and forget about it! 
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