Cookie Connection has quickly grown into a large and incredibly diverse international community (woo hoo!), and this week's Top 10 cookies truly underscore this point with their wide-ranging styles, techniques, and design perspectives.
The hot list* below includes everything from cookie cakes that make masterful use of luster dust to brilliantly stenciled monograms to a 3-D royal icing wedding chapel. And the cookiers behind these creative works hail from such far-flung places as Zizur Mayor and Mesa, Arizona. (Betcha can't repeat those cities three times fast!).
Yep, it's an eclectically exciting round-up as you're about to see. Congrats to everyone on the list, and thanks to all of you who so energetically post cookies each day, contributing to our beautiful diversity!
#1: Rainbow Birthday Cake by Allison at Baked on Briar
#2: Monogrammed Bridal Shower Hearts by Lizy B Bakes
#3: Spa Cookies by Sugared Hearts Bakery
#4: Puppy Love by Dolce
#5: Royal Icing Wedding Chapel by Kim at Sugar Rush Custom Cookies
#6: Letter Cookies by Lynn at Sweet Molly Orange
#7: Purple Rain . . . Purple Rain by You Can Call Me Sweetie
#8: Circus Cookies by Kristine
#9: Spring Dress by Patricia at Experimentos con Azúcar
#10: Kokeshi Dolls by Tricia Z at The Cookie Loft Girls
New this week: As an added bene, all Saturday Spotlight and Cookie Connection contest finalists and grand prize winners will also have their winning cookies featured in perpetuity in the "Featured Clips" area on the site.
* Lastly, 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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