Yo Gabba Gabba

Hello Monday! Hope everyone had a great weekend, I know I was super busy this past weekend. Here are some Yo Gabba Gabba cookies I did for a birthday party last Friday. They were fairly big at 4" and looked great with all the characters together. I only made a dozen, but whew- they were time consuming! Worth it though, since they turned out way cuter that I'd imagined!

Here's a close up of Brobee and more pictures can be found on my flickr.

For those of you not following the tv woes of the preschool crowd, here's a picture of the characters.

Decorating tunes this time came from the local country radio station.
-J

Happy Father's Day!

I let go of the reigns for Father's Day and let Christopher decorate some cookies for his Daddy. He picked out the rainbow sprinkles and said he wanted to decorate with blue frosting. The end result were some yummy cookies that spelled out "Daddy" along with a fish cookie, since he fishes. Yummmm:

Ok, do I didn't completely let go of the reigns. I figured Gregory already had enough cookies with the one's Christopher made him, but a friend asked me to make her a neck tie cookie for her dad. Here's what I came up with, all sugar cookies with royal icing and sugar (and sprinkles!):


Happy Father's Day honey!
-J

Karate Cookies

The woman who reads the stories at a local story-time that I take Christopher to asked if I could do some special cookies for her daughter's 7th birthday party. Her daughter, Charlie, was having her birthday party at a Karate studio and wanted karate people made out of chocolate chip cookies with a yellow belt and yellow m&m's. I did the m&m's as belt accents and they turned out really cute! These were fun to decorate but were a little harder to keep together than sugar cookies.

Decorating tunes were a mix of 90's songs like The Wallflowers, Savage Garden and No Doubt.

-J

So I'm more into making cupcakes and cookies, but ever since I started working with fondant (which was what, a good week ago?) I've been wanting to try covering a cake with fondant. This past weekend a good friend asked if I'd make a cake for her and her husband's 5th wedding anniversary so I took on the fondant challenge!

She just wanted a small cake that at least sort of resembled her wedding cake but she wasn't picky at all and would have gone for either fondant or icing. That was nice because I wasn't sure how the fondant was going to turn out since I'd never covered a cake in fondant before. I figured if I tried it and it didn't work, I'd just use white buttercream. Her original wedding cake was white fondant-covered tiers with pink ribbon, draped fondant and some piping. She provided the ribbon and the flowers and the rest was up to me.

The tiers didn't come out perfectly smooth but I was pleasantly surprised with how nice the draped fondant looked, especially since I hadn't originally planned on doing that. I can't wait to get back in the kitchen and try some more! So here is the cake...


This was a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream filling and vanilla fondant. No chocolate because her daughter does NOT like chocolate!

Decorating tunes were mostly nothing this time, but I turned on a few Hanson songs towards the end.

-J

Chocolate & Carrot Cake

Here are some cupcakes I did for a baby shower this weekend. They were chocolate and carrot cake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. Blue & yellow fondant flowers to celebrate the mom and her baby boy on the way!



I finally got around to listening to Hanson for my decorating tunes, so it was their album "The Walk" for these cupcakes.

-J

Flickr

Lunch Box Lane is now on Flickr! For additional pictures of cupcakes, cakes, and cookies check it out at http://www.flickr.com/photos/LunchBoxLane/

Harlow's Hairbows

I took a break from the baking craziness to make a few more bows for Harlow's Hairbows and they've just been picked up by the East Sac children's boutique, Koukla Kids! It's so exciting, I feel all professional and all now! So you can either buy my hairbows directly from me or stop in at Koukla and purchase them there. The store is SO stinkin' adorable! Here's a couple pictures of the store. That's Christopher and his friend Peter hanging out on the couch (and little Katie on the floor).

Polka Dot Baby Shower Cake

This past weekend I made a polka dot cake for a baby shower! Chocolate cake with raspberry whipped cream filling, vanilla whipped cream frosting and pink, green, and yellow polka dots (I just love that color combination, especially for summer!). So yummy! I think it looked so adorable with the writing, but looking back at it, I think I wish I'd done the writing in a little bit brighter pink. I don't know, I do kind of liked the contrast though.

Decorating tunes were some random iPod selections, mostly Jonas Brother's album from last year, I think "A Little Bit Longer."

-J

Preschool Cupcakes

My son's last day of preschool for the semester was last Thursday, so I took in cupcakes for all the kids (and parents!). I decorated them with sprinkles and little fondant elephants and giraffes, but I think they would look great for a baby shower too! They were vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting. Oh, and hint of orange thrown in there too!


Here's the giraffe cupcakes. His name is Sprinkles, name by my son.

And here's the elephant! And is name is Sprinkles 2, also named by my son.

Decorating tunes... I think were a random mix of songs from the laptop. I don't have much music on here since we had to get it fixed last month, so I think it was a mix of oldies including "Teach Your Children" by Crosby Stills Nash & Young.

-J

M Corp

Logo Cupcakes: $2.50 each
Flower cupcakes: $2.50 each

Company logo and springtime cupcakes for an open house. Vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting, vanilla fondant flowers and the logo in royal icing.