To think she isn't going to get ill from undercooked cake?

[Whatonearth0]

Had my niece round and we decided to do some baking together. Standard cupcake recipe self raising flour, caster sugar, butter, couple of eggs.

Well, I didn't bake them for long enough 😫

I didn't realise until it was too late. My niece had two cupcakes, and then I ate one. She didn't say a word/didn't know/didn't notice. I bit into mine and the middle was very mushy moist still and eggy tasting. Definitely undercooked.

DP is now fretting she's going to get ill from that.
Surely not?

I seem to remember munching down on raw cake mix when I was little and it didn't kill me. Is she likely to get an upset stomach from it?

Chill, she will be fine. You sound like a lovely auntie doing baking with her :)

She’ll be fine!

We’ve all eaten undercooked food and lived to tell the tale. There are some schools of thought that our clean food is causing havoc with our immune systems by not giving them a workout (this does not mean you should eat out of date sushi)

Honestly, I was raised in a place that lutefisk (fish cured in lye) was celebrated and live now in a place where raw beef sandwiches (raw ground sirloin sandwiches) are a holiday staple.

Undercooked cake batter is nothing.

OP- it didn't kill you as a child as likely no outbreak at the time! There is currently a recall due to chicken with salmonella being in sandwiches in the UK, along with a kinder egg recall also from salmonella a few months ago. Not to mention the hepatitis outbreak in toddlers all over the British Isles and aboard being investigated! More likely they are fine, but please ask the parents to monitor for diarrhea, vomiting, jaundice, fever or pale stools.

I can't believe your dp has never licked the bowl out! I thought that was a childhood treat (and let's face it, adult) that everyone indulged in.

Over here advice is not to eat raw flour due to E.coli risk. Also raw egg for Salmonella risk. Having said that my kids and I eat raw cake batter all the time (best part of baking!). Thr risk is relatively low I'm sure your niece will be fine.
www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/communication/no-raw-dough.html#:~:text=Flour%20doesn't%20look%20like,flour%20while%20it's%20being%20made.