Phew, I see light at the end of the top-coating tunnel! After icing another few hundred cookies this week for the Oklahoma State Sugar Art Show (I'm doing a large-scale cookiescape with the help of Cookie Connection members Charlie's Cakes and Cookies and Lucky Penny), I'm liberated at long last to do the part of cookie decorating I love most - the detail work!
I guess we cookiers are cut from the same cookie dough, because there was no shortage of painstakingly decorated cookies on this week's Top 10 Hot List!* From an elaborate cookie carousel made with embossed cookie dough to a scrapbooking set complete with stickers, ribbons, and crafting shears, each honoree clearly demonstrates that God is absolutely in the details.
Now, grab a cup of coffee or glass of wine (depending on your time zone), kick back, and absorb the extraordinary love and care in each of this week's hot picks.
#1: Gingerbread Carousel by LSchuy
#2: Big Cat by ButterWinks
#3: Pop! by Whisked Away Cookies
#4: So Chic, Hello Kitty by You Can Call Me Sweetie
#5: Cookie Chests by 4-D Cookies [EDITOR'S NOTE: Extra congrats! This cookie has staying power - it's still riding high after topping the list last week! And we all know why.]
#6: Sandcastle Cookies by Sugar By Julie
#7: Storks by Grunderfully Delicious
#8: Wine Bottle and Glasses by Lucky Penny
#9: Scrapbooking Cookies by Sugar by Julie [EDITOR'S NOTE: Congrats again, Julie, on your second win of the week! Woo hoo!]
#10: Art Deco Cookies by Sugar Pixie Sweets
* 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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