And the neat thing about it is, it rotates to reveal" - and here, with a flourish, he illustrated - "a batter bowl!

He picked up his batter bowl, trying to find something else to lick.

As soon as youngsters are old enough to lick the batter bowl, they are likely to become willing participants.

Steve Forbes arrived late for his pancake flip and did not know how far from original he was in engaging in the same wordplay tried repeatedly by his predecessors at the batter bowl.

I mean, you get a great big batter bowl and it feels like home.

Luckily for them, this doesn't preclude licking the batter bowl, with caveats.

Don't Eat the Batter It's the baking season, but with the hazard of salmonella contamination in eggs, which makes it risky to eat uncooked eggs, you might think twice about allowing anyone to lick the batter bowl.

She turned quickly, the spoon flying up in the batter bowl as she started.

"It's simply underbaked, so it reminds you of when you were a kid and licked the batter bowl," said Mr. Nish of March, where a similar cake is made using a combination of Mexican chocolate, with its hint of cinnamon, and Callebaut chocolate from Belgium.