Funny thing, I'm currently making cookie dough, but I'm actually going to bake them rather than just eat the dough. I might even take a picture since baking/cooking is as close to art as I get.
Fun fact: The reason you shouldn't eat raw cookie dough is because uncooked egg has a higher probably of containering salmonella then some other foods.
However pasteruaization kills salmonella as well as a number of other bacteria (this is why raw milk is typically safe), and they make pasteurized liquid egg product (like egg beaters) which can be used to make cookie dough which feels and tastes completely normal, without altering the recipe in any other way. This cookie dough can even be baked into cookies and still look and taste completely normal. The only downside is that egg makes a slightly better binding agent than liquid egg product, so your cookies may turn out slightly more crumbly. This isn't usually a problem but can be with certain types of cookies.
TLDR: use egg beaters to make cookie dough that's safe to eat but still tastes great
My chocolate cutout cookies fell apart a little. They still tasted fine, they were just less presentable. But that only happened because they were a thin cookie depending on the binding agent from the egg to hold their shape. And it's not that they didn't, they just broke easily.
Crumbling is the only problem you should face with drop cookies though. And even then usually not badly.
However pasteruaization kills salmonella as well as a number of other bacteria (this is why raw milk is typically safe), and they make pasteurized liquid egg product (like egg beaters) which can be used to make cookie dough which feels and tastes completely normal, without altering the recipe in any other way. This cookie dough can even be baked into cookies and still look and taste completely normal. The only downside is that egg makes a slightly better binding agent than liquid egg product, so your cookies may turn out slightly more crumbly. This isn't usually a problem but can be with certain types of cookies.
TLDR: use egg beaters to make cookie dough that's safe to eat but still tastes great
I don't hear any cons in this...
Crumbling is the only problem you should face with drop cookies though. And even then usually not badly.