Cookies V Doughnuts
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Cookies and doughnuts are both yummy treats, but they also have their advantages and disadvantages. Cookies for instance can be produced with relative ease in any kitchen using flour, water, sugar and eggs. Doughnuts on the other hand, while containing very similar ingredients as cookies, are not usually made at home, hence all of the doughnut shops. This is one disadvantage to doughnuts; they are relatively difficult to produce.
Cookies are traditionally made by combining the ingredients listed and adding something like chocolate or nuts. The cookies are then baked at around 375 degrees for about eight minutes or until they are golden brown. They are then allowed to cool and then they are served.
Doughnuts are not as simple as cookies. The dough must be prepared using flour, water, eggs, and then another ingredient; yeast, to add the tiny air pockets that make the dough rise and to make them so edible. After the dough has risen, it can be shaped into the familiar ring shape either by rolling it into snake-like portions or, more commonly, spreading the dough thickly over a flat surface using a device similar to a cookie cutter...