Phew! It's been a long week or so of cookie-ing (I live-streamed a cookie decorating course all the way from Brazil!), and an even longer week of looking at ONLY my cookies. (I had 10-minute breaks between live-streaming sessions, and no free days between my classes, so I sadly had little time for online cookie-perusing!)
That said, it's been super refreshing to return to Cookie Connection this weekend and see the wide variety of work that topped this week's hot list!*
Believe me, after ten straight days of looking solely at 3-D cookie cakes and boxes, 1976 Chevrolets, Adirondack homes, and farmyard animals (to mention just three of this week's wonders) were welcome sights for my sore eyes! Better yet, posting about them has been an excellent excuse to procrastinate on my unpacking! 
Congrats to this week's honorees!
#1: A Wizard's Curios by virago [EDITOR'S NOTE: One of several clever Practice Bakes Perfect challenge entries that made this week's Spotlight! Remember: there's still time to rise to the challenge and enter to win a wonderful assortment of boxes from BRP Box Shop. More challenge info here.]
#2: Flower Bouquets by Cookie Celebration [EDITOR'S NOTE: Another Practice Bakes Perfect challenge entry!]
#3: Adirondack Dreaming by RebeccArchitect (aka The Cookie Architect)
#4: Sewing by Ahimsa Custom Cakes [EDITOR'S NOTE: Yes, ANOTHER Practice Bakes Perfect challenge entry! You can tell by the creative use of Christmas cutters!]
#5: Fish Cookie Set by Lucy at Honeycat Cookies
#6: Secret Garden by Verna Chen HT
#7: Four Seasons by vert
#8: Festive Farmyard! by Shel at Sweet Petite [EDITOR'S NOTE: Yeah, you guessed right! Another fabulous challenge entry that caught your eyes this week!]
#9: 1976 Chevrolet by Kat Rutledge-Ibicci
#10: Floral Baby Shower by Love Bug Cookies
I hope you enjoyed this week's hot list as much as I did. I'm plumb out of excuses now, so I guess it's back to unpacking . . .
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.
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