I saw two versions of these lion and lamb cupcakes, both referencing March as the month that comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, and because of a href=”http://mythreedoodles.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-made-monkey-cupcakes-for-monkey.html”my newfound love for cupcake decorating/a, I had to try them. I really thought that the a href=”http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50077amp;campaign=NLC-NL_Recipeamp;link=Section2Link2″Family Fun lion/a and a href=”http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/lion-and-lamb-cupcakes”Martha Stewart lamb/a were best suited for each other, so I made them for Easter, as Jesus is often referenced as being “the Lion and the Lamb,” and Pumpkin Doodle and I spent a lot of time talking about what that means. (And while I do love doing crafts and fun things with my girls, I consider cupcake decorating MY outlet. When they’re older it may be something we do together, but for now, I wait until naptime!)br /br /About halfway through cutting the gumdrops for the lion’s mane, I wanted to give up (and I only made 9 of them!), but I love the way they came out in the end:br /br /img id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195864008202621490″ style=”DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center” alt=”" src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PoXHVGzLUGI/SBtqyV4nkjI/AAAAAAAAABk/t4–qOpxY9Q/s320/Lion+%26+Lamb+Cupcakes+email.JPG” border=”0″ /br /br /img id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195864862901113410″ style=”DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center” alt=”" src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PoXHVGzLUGI/SBtrkF4nkkI/AAAAAAAAABs/Veo5zjw9kJg/s320/Lamb+Cupcake+email.JPG” border=”0″ /br /br /img id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195864871491048018″ style=”DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center” alt=”" src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PoXHVGzLUGI/SBtrkl4nklI/AAAAAAAAAB0/9wW98zY3TbA/s320/Lion+Cupcake+email.JPG” border=”0″ /br /br /a href=”http://www.mylivesignature.com/” target=”_blank”img style=”BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none” src=”http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54486/128/0E4A8EA9D2A4A002FC32D3D163051882.png” //a