Hello, cookiers!
After baking and flooding close to 300 cookies in the last three days (with a few hundred more looming on the horizon), I am in a deep and seemingly inescapable cookie rut. That said, I'm throwing caution to the wind and completely changing up the format of this week's Saturday Spotlight. No risk of getting into a rut here - phew!
So what exactly is different this week? Glad you asked! Rather than featuring the top 10 cookies of the week, or the top 10 within a particular cookie category, I'm spotlighting the top in each of 10 hot categories. Below, you'll see the best in character cookies, platter designs, anniversary cookies, and so on. This being the case, the week's honorees are presented in no particular order, with the exception of the first cookier on the list who also had the hottest cookie of the week!
Congrats to those featured this week! And here's to a rut-less and carefree weekend for everyone!
Cookie Chests - Best of 3-D Cookies
By 4-D Cookies
Classic Pooh Onesie Favors - Best of Character Cookies
Beatrix Potter-Themed Cookies - Best of Hand-Painted Cookies
By Kim at Sugar Rush Custom Cookies [EDITOR'S NOTE: Don't forget, Kim will be live-chatting with us on August 31. We're now accepting advance questions here.]
BBQ Cookies - Best of Cookies That Look Like Other Food
By Lucky Penny
Custom Birthday Set - Best of Platter Designs
By Dolce
Fondant and Pearls - Best of Bridal Shower and Anniversary Cookies
Easter - Best of Needlepoint Cookies
Motorbike Cookie - Best of Sports Cookies
Piping Crazy Cookies - Best of Intricately Piped and Flower Cookies
The Sweet Bakery - Best of Bouquets
By Patricia at Experimentos Con Azúcar
* As a reminder, a word about how the rankings are determined: The rankings are not at all subjective. In fact, they are determined essentially by you, our members, and the activity (number of views, likes, and comments) you've bestowed on each photo. The site uses a top-secret algorithm that weighs these various factors to determine which photos are trending most quickly (i.e., are the "hottest") over specified periods of time. As such, the hot list at the time of this announcement may look a little different a few hours or a day from now as more photos are added to the site. But what you see here is who was hottest over the previous week at the time of this post!
So that no one has an unfair advantage in making it onto a hot list, the algorithm is secret even to site administrators. Only our platform developers know the code, which has been exhaustively tested by those developers and Cookie Connection staff.
All photos shown here are the courtesy (and copyright) of the designers listed.
To check out our other hot lists, at any time of day, visit our Hot Spot, also found in the site's main navigation line.
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