With all the detailed decorating I've been doing lately, it's no wonder I can't see the forest through the trees - with anything! (I say, as I adjust my glasses, hoping that the computer screen will soon come into focus . . .)
So . . . in a conscious effort to see the big picture, I'm casting the spotlight this week on the hottest cookies across the entire site. No zooming in on a single category - like Easter or spring. Instead we're looking at the best of the best in all of the site's 68 (!) photo categories.
Granted, there's a lot of spring and Easter represented among this week's hot list*. (That's only natural with Easter a week away, and temperatures now safely out of polar vortex-range.) But you'll see some other cool cookies too - like a painstakingly piped mosaic, a clever interpretation of "dance" done with silhouettes, and a candy jar with so much dimension that it could easily pass for the real thing!
So much for staying out of the details . . . I'm drawn into each and every one on these cookie masterpieces. Enjoy, and congrats to this week's honorees.
#1: Flower Tile Mosaic by Yankee Girl Yummies [EDITOR'S NOTE: This cookie was one of my favorite CookieCon 2014 entries.]
#2: Easter Birds by Dalla Via Jana
#3: Dance by mmmcookies
#4: Spring Cookies by Evelindecora
#5: Easter Collage by Sugar Pearls Cakes and Bakes
#6: Iced Roses by AnikÓ VargÁnÉ OrbÁn
#7: Bunny-n-Friends by Bakerloo Station
#8: Sprinkle-y Pink Easter Bunny Cookies by Michelle at MakeMeCake.me [EDITOR'S NOTE: This cookie sure has staying power! It was #1 last week. Influence, too, as you'll soon see below.]
#9: Jelly Bean Jar by Jeanna at Truffle Pop Shoppe
#10: Bunny and Eggs by Tina at Sugar Wishes [EDITOR'S NOTE: Fun to see Michelle's inspiration, above, played out in fondant here.]
* 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.
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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