Wednesday 12 August 2015

♥ Minion Cupcakes!! Banana! Cupcakes! ♥

Hi friends, hope you all have had a nice day.
The kids made cupcakes with a special tribute to the minions. They adore minions and wanted to make banana cupcakes since the minions love bananas.




So here is the recipe we used.

Minion Cupcakes Recipe

100gm Butter
185gm Castor Sugar
1 Teaspoon Vanilla Essence
2 Eggs
200gm Self Raising Flour
1/2 Cup of Milk (Standard or Lite)
1 ripe banana

Prepare the cupcake tins with cupcake liners. Make sure the butter is soft by either leaving out of the fridge until it's soft or putting it in the microwave for 20-30 seconds until it's soft.
Turn the oven on Bake and at 200 degrees Celsius. 

1. Mix the butter, castor sugar and vanilla essence in a bowl until it's pale.
2. Add an egg in one at a time and mix until combined.
3. Add in half of the flour and mix until combined, then add half of the milk until it's combined.
Then pour the remaining flour in and mix, and then the remaining milk and mix until it's combined.
4. Mash the banana until its thick with no lumps and add it to the cupcake batter.
5. Mix until its combined.
6. Spoon the batter into the cupcake tins. Making sure not to over fill the cupcake liners.
7. Put the tins into the oven for 15-20 minutes. Or until the top of the cupcakes are golden brown, and springy when you lightly touch the tops of the cupcakes.
8. When cooked, put on to cake racks to cool.

Minion Icing Recipe

1 Cup of Icing sugar
Warm water
Food colouring (Yellow, Black) (Optional: Blue for the overalls)
Toothpicks or something to aid in creating minion faces.

1. Mix together the icing sugar and about a table spoon of warm water. If the consistancy of the icing is too runny add a little more icing sugar. If it's too thick add a little more warm water.
2. Divide into 3 seperate bowls.
3. Add yellow to one mixture, black to one mixture and leave the last mixture white.
If you chose to have blue make sure you divide the mixture into 4 and have one for the blue coloring.
4. Now you are ready to start icing your cupcakes!

Icing Minion Cupcakes

1. Cover the whole cupcake top with yellow icing.
(You may want to wait for a minute or two to let the icing set for a bit before continuing.)
2. Next using a toothpick get some white icing and drip it near the top side of the cupcake, you'll be making the eyes. Make sure you have enough to make the eyes. Make them round and big. But not to big otherwise you wont be able to fit in the frames of their goggles. (Or you could have a one eyed minion)
3. Now using Black icing, add small pupils for the eyes. and go around the whites of the eyes with black and add some straps on the side of the goggles that go to the edge of the cupcake.
4. Next is adding a mouth using the white icing again, make a little oval shape under the goggles.
5. Using black icing, make a mouth shape making sure to outline the mouth. You can make your minion smile or frown. What ever you like.
6. Now finish off with the hair or not you may want this minion cupcake to have no hair at all.

Yay! All finished. All that's left to do is to eat it! Yummy!

Here's the video!

Hope you will make some minion cupcakes! Bye!!






Monday 20 July 2015

NEW Play Doh Challenge Guessing Game!!!!

Hi friends!
Josef, Layla, Bella and Noah all played a Play-doh game today. It was fun and exciting.
Here's how to play.

This game is good for 2 or more players.
You'll need:
Play-doh for each person.
Bowl or hat
Pieces of small paper with things, characters, food, animals, objects written on them.

Fold all the pieces of paper in half. Then put them into the bowl or hat.
Each kid gets a turn taking out a piece of paper, and then uses the Play-doh to make what was written on the piece of paper. Usually 30-40 seconds to mold the Play-doh.

After time is called, everyone else has a turn guessing what was molded out of the Play-doh.
Whoever guesses correct gets 1 point.
The game ends when everyone has had a turn. The player with the most points wins!

In this video it's the very first round.
I hope you enjoy and thanks for visiting!
Have a great day!

This game can be played by different ages, be used in groups too!

Dairy Milk Marvellous Creations Chocolate Cola Popping Candy and Fizzy Crunch

Hi friends!
Bella and Noah tried the Dairy Milk Marvellous Creations Chocolate Cola Popping Candy and Fizzy Crunch.
Here's the video:

Yummy Cola flavoured bits, Popping Candy and Fizzy Crunch too?!


I tasted a piece and the Cola flavoured bits stood out the most. The chocolate was deliciously creamy and melted in my mouth!

We sure do love our chocolate!

Thanks for visiting!
Have a great day!
 

Friday 10 July 2015

Lolly Cake Making Madness!! Yummy No Bake Easy for kids Lolly Cake ♥

Hi friends, the kids over at Collector By 7 made Lolly Cake, an easy to make no bake cake that kids can make.
So here is the video of the kids making it:

Lolly Cake has to be made a least 2 hours in advance of using the cake.

Great for kids parties or just as snack. You can slice them thinner or thicker. We love lolly cake, but will only have 1 slice each. It's sweet very much like a slice. If you roll it in dried coconut it will taste even better!
Who would have thought using a few ingredients would make such a delicious cake!




Here is the recipe how to make it.

Lolly Cake.
Ingredients:
1 Packet of Malt Biscuits.
1 Packet of Eskimo lollies or Fruit Puffs. You could use similar lollies to these as well!)
1/2 Can of Condensed Milk about 200g.
120gm of Butter.
Optional - 1 Cup of Dessicated Coconut.

1. Crush the biscuits, in a zip lock bag. Using the back of a spoon start crushing. You could also chuck the biscuits into a food processor to crush them.

2. Chop up the lollies into bits, we cut them up into 3. Break them with your hands is an easy option too!

3. In a different bowl, pour in condensed milk and put the butter into the bowl and zap in the microwave for 30 seconds each time until the butter has melted. Don't worry if there are lumps from the butter, just give it a stir and the butter will eventually melt.

4. Pour the biscuits and lollies into the butter mixture and mix well. Making sure you get all the crumbs at the bottom of the bowl!

5. When everything is mixed, squash it all onto baking paper on a plate or a flat dish and mould into a roll or a cake what ever shape you want. (At this point if you wanted to roll it in dried coconut, do that now.)

6. Cover with baking paper, and put it in the fridge for 2 hours or until it has set. You can check to see if it's hard to cut.

7. Once it's set you can take it out of the fridge, and slice it up to how ever thick you want.

That's it! Easy and simple!

Hope you enjoyed this recipe. Have a great day. Why not stop by our YouTube Channel Collector By 7 to check out more videos that we have.

NEW! Jelly Tip Biscuits Taste Test! Yummy!!


Hi friends, the kids from Collector By 7 got to taste the Jelly Tip Biscuits made by Griffins. Tip Top joined forces with Griffins and created this yummy creation. Here is what they thought of the biscuits.

It's got a biscuit base, then a creamy filling then a delicious layer of raspberry jelly all covered in milk chocolate!

It's one of my favourites now. The kids enjoyed it and were left wanting more!

Here is the packet.

The biscuit is not hard to bite into. There is a taste of coconut in the biscuit base. The jelly has a taste of turkish delight and raspberry jam in it.
The chocolate is creamy melt in your hand chocolate. The cream is milky smooth on the tastebuds.

The best way to try it is pop them in the fridge foe bit before eating them. Yummy!!

Thanks for stopping by! Check out more videos on our channel!

NEW! Jelly Tip Chocolate Taste Test | Yummy Chocolate!!!

Hi friends, today the kids from Collector by 7 got to taste the chocolate from the chocolate company Whittakers. They teamed up with Tip Top the ice cream makers and re-created this delicious combination. Jelly Tip Block!
Yum-yum! Here is the video:

The look on their faces says it all. They were speechless! We buy the Tip Top Jelly Tip 2 Litre tubs of ice cream and its our favourite flavor. (Also they Gumdrop ice cream too!)
So they were super excited to try this when we saw it in the supermarket.
It's a milk chocolate layer at the bottom, with raspberry jelly in the center and white chocolate on top.
It's creamy, and smooth. Tastes just like the Jelly Tip Ice cream.

Thanks for stopping by! Make sure you check out more of our videos on our channel. Http://www.youtube.com/c/CollectorBy7
Bye!

Easter Surprise with Noah and Max

Hi friends, here is an easter surprise with Noah and Max.
Noah wanted to do a video with his baby brother Max. So this is their video.

They start digging into the giant elmo to fish out their easter surprises!
What do they find?
Here is what they find.
Noah and Max find a little lamb with Chocolate egg. A blue chocolate hollow egg and a giant hollow bunny!

They looked like they had lots of fun!
Thanks for stopping by. Check out more videos on our youtube channel.

Tornado Speed Top (Beyblade) Unboxing with Josef from Collector by 7.

Hi friends, Josef unboxes Tornado Speed Top and has a fun time playing with it.
You can watch all the action here:

I remember when I was little, my parents would buy my younger brothers Beyblades from the asian shops in Auckland. I would be so amazed watching them spinning and crashing into each other.
On the back of the box it shows all the types of speed tops you can get. Also what is included in the box.

Here is the front of the box, you can see all the parts.

Be sure to watch the video to see how it comes together!
Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!

Skylanders Giants Mega Blox Unboxing with Noah

Hi friends, here is Noah unboxing Skylanders Giants Mega Blox.
Here is the video... 
Noah had a great time unboxing these awesome blox.
He still plays with them today!
Here is what is on the back of the box.



Here is what is on the front of the box and you can also see the toys inside.


Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!

GIANT Elmo Easter Surprise with Noah and Josef Happy Easter 2015

Collector by 7 kids were lucky this easter with a giant easter elmo surprise bag filled with easter treats.
Here is Josef and Noah opening the surprise!

How many surprises did they get? Which one was your favorite?

Kinder Mini Mix Unboxing with Josef & Noah | Kinder Surprise Egg Kinder Circus Kinder Chocolate

Hi friends, Josef & Noah opened a Kinder Mini Mix. It has a selection of Kinder treats inside. 5 Kinder Circus eggs, 2 Kinder Chocolates and 1 Kinder Surprise egg.
Which kinder toy did the boys get?
Here is the video:

What do you think they find?
 This is what they got from inside the Kinder Surprise Pouch!
But wait.. which toy did they get?
They got this little cute crayon. It's body can be used as a red crayon with little bumps on it's back with red and blue colors. A cute surprise!

Thanks for stopping by our blog. Be sure to visit our YouTube Channel too!
Have a great day!

Scooby Doo Iddy Biddy Fruit Bits with a surprise prize inside!

Scooby Doo Iddy Biddy Fruit Bits with a surprise prize inside! There are 30 holographic magnets to collect.
You can watch the video here:

What magnet do we get today?
We got this one. With Scooby holding a cupcake and an apple while surrounded with other delicious snacks.
Here is what they fruit bits look like..
There are 9 fruit bits in each little pouch. They are gummy and taste fruity. Great for the little ones lunch box or on the go.


Thanks for stopping by! Have a fun day.


Scooby Doo! Mr Munchies 10 Pack Cookies Prize inside pack!

We opened a super cool Scooby Doo! Mr Munchies Cookies Pack. It's filled with 10 packs of Scooby Snacks and a special prize. Check out the video here:


We collect the magnets from Mr Munchies snack packs. There is also Hello Kitty, My Little Pony and Simpsons.
Thanks for visiting.

NEW! Kinder Surprise Bunnies Eggs opening Avengers

NEW! Kinder Surprise Bunnies Eggs opening Avengers

Hi friends!

Today's post is about surprise bunnies and surprise eggs!
Here is the video on our YouTube channel Collector by 7.

My kids really wanted to open some eggs and bunnies, so I let them.

The first kinder surprise egg we got..
Josef was very surprised to see this one.
He gobbled all the chocolate.

Insdie the next surprise egg was....


Layla was also surprised to get Nick Fury!
She gobbled all her chocolate.

In the next surprise egg Bella opened, what did she find?
She found Loki! Yay!
Then she gobbled all her chocolate.

Up next is Noah who gets to open the Kinder Bunny! He is super excited to open it. What do you think he found in the bunny?


 He got a blue hedgehog! But only one. :)

His baby brother Max got the same hedgehog in his Kinder Bunny too. 

Very cool surprises!
Have you ever opened a kinder egg or kinder bunny? What did you get as your surprise?

Hope you have a great day!




Saturday 21 March 2015

8 Surprise Super Animal Collector Card Packs from Countdown opening with Sound Card Reader

8 Surprise Super Animal Collector Card Packs from Countdown opening with Sound Card Reader!

Hi friends!
Here is an educational post for all the animal lovers out there.
I have collected a stack of Super Animal Collector Cards from Countdown. Countdown is one of the many supermarkets. (Ours happens to be just down the road from us, Yay!)
For every $20 spent at Countdown you get a pack of 4 Super animal collector cards.
We shop at Countdown every week, 3-4 times a week sometimes.

Here is the video that I posted on our YouTube channel.

A few months ago, I grabbed a Super Animal sound card reader. I didn't get the folder or the tin. But should have as now I have nothing to store the cards in. Nevermind.

Here we go!
The sound card reader, is a reader that you swipe the card down the side and it makes the sound that the animal makes. I think that it's awesome! The kids do too!

Here is the list of Super Animal Collector cards I got in this video!

8. White throated Needle tail.
10. Blue Wildebeest
13. African Buffalo
13. Honey Badger
21. Boreal Chorus Frog
22. Monarch Butterfly
28. Bornean Slow Loris
30. Saw-Scaled Viper
31. Strawberry Poison Frog x2
36. Anopheles Mosquito
41. New Caledonian Crow
44. Egyptian Vulture
47. Chimpanzee
49. Grizzly Bear x2
60. Wolverine
64. Eastern Tube-Nosed Bat
68. Narwhal
70. Turtle Frog
75. Asian Koel x2
79. Magnificent Frigatebird
80. Tokay Gecko
86. Asian Elephant
87. Hyacinth Macaw
88. Bladder Cicada
93. Water Boatman
94. Oil Bird
101. Western Lowland Gorilla
103. Red Capped Manakin
108. Costa Rican Tree-Frog

I still have another stack of collector cards to open and swipe too! 
I'll do that in tomorrow and see how we go with that!

Next post is all about surprise eggs and bunnies!!

Until next time, keep smiling and have a great day!

Friday 20 March 2015

♥ Elsa Olaf Anna Frozen Eggs ♥ Disney Frozen Surprise Eggs | where to buy disney frozen surprise eggs

♥ Elsa Olaf Anna Frozen Eggs ♥ Disney Frozen Surprise Eggs !

Hi friends, I posted a video up on YouTube popping open 6 Disney Frozen surprise eggs!

Want to watch? Please subscribe, like and share the video with your friends and loved ones! :D


Wow! I love Disney Frozen! How about you?
Who is your favorite character? I love them all!

In the video I open 6 Disney frozen surprise eggs, and I am surprised at what I get!
Each character comes with a round blue glittery disc, which they can stand on.

The first egg I open I get...

Anna! Hooray! She has her beautiful blue dress on, and a lovely purple cloak. Her hair is in 2 braids.


The next surprise we get...
Frozen Anna! 

This Frozen statue Anna is glittery and blue. Just like in the movie when Anna is frozen solid. 

The next surprise we get is...
Queen Elsa! 

I love her pose! Her blue sparkly gown and cape. Her hair is in a braid like it is in the movie. Yay for Queen Elsa!

The next surprise we get is..
Olaf!

Olaf is so cute and fun! He is standing on a lump of grass, and would probably be singing. We love Olaf!

The next surprise we get is...

Another Queen Elsa! That's 2 Queen Elsa. I don't mind, because she is so great!

The last surprise we get is...
Another Frozen glittery Anna! Hooray!

That's all from the Disney Frozen Surprise Eggs. I hope you enjoyed the surprises as much as I did.

The next post will be all about learning something new! Also animal sounds!

Until next time, keep smiling and have a great day! :D

(P.s if you're looking for Disney Frozen Surprise eggs, and live in New Zealand. They sell them at Farmers. Look in the toy section with all the other frozen toys. They retail for NZD$6, I think. )

If you live outside of NZ, you can buy them from Amazon too. Click here for the link.


Frozen Birthday Party with Cake and more!

Hi friends, in today's post it is a little different. We won't be reviewing toys but looking at a Frozen cake that I made for a Disney Frozen themed birthday party for a girl.
Here is the video. Please watch, like and subscribe to my channel for more videos!


In the video I show you a few characters from the movie Frozen, and also the cake. The frozen characters on the cake are Elsa, Olaf, Anna and a frozen Anna.

Here is the cake I made:
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It took me 4 hours to make and decorate the cake. It's the first time I've made a cake with fondant. I am happy with how it turned out. So was Layla!


There was alot of mess. 
The bottom layer of the Frozen cake was Chocolate, and the top tier was Raspberry Swirl.



Yummy cakes, I love cakes!
What's your fave cake flavor? 

In the next post I pop open a few of my favorite characters! A few frozen ones.. :)
Until next time, keep smiling and have a great day! :D


Play Doh Sweet Shoppe Ice Cream Sundae Cart Unboxing

Play Doh Sweet Shoppe Ice Cream Sundae Cart Unboxing!
Hi friends, I recently unboxed a Play Doh Sweet Shoppe Ice Cream Sundae Cart. It was a lovely play doh set.
Go check out the video here:

I made some delicious icecream treats with this play doh set!
In this set you get:
Ice cream cart
Ice cream dish
2 Ice cream cones
Scoop
Roller
2 Ice cream bar sticks
Ice cream bar book mold
Extruder
2 cans of Confetti Play-Doh modelling compound
1 can of  Play-Doh plus compound

Here are some Play Doh ice cream treats I made:
I made 2 ice cream bars, 2 delicious ice cream cones and 1 scrumptious sundae!
I also made some toppings for them too!
Check out the video to see how I made these treats. 
My pony friend, helped and enjoys eating ice cream bars!

See you in the next post and video!

My next video is all FROZEN! 
Until next time, keep smiling and have a great day! :D


Moshi Monsters Blister Pack & NEW Avengers Surprise Eggs Rare Gold Mooshi Monster

Hi friends!
A new post with some new surprises!
I opened not 1 but 2 Moshi monster blister packs and a box of Avengers surprise eggs from Kinder Surprise.

I am super happy that you can watch it all here:

Here is what I got when I opened the first Surprise egg!
It was...
Thor! again.. hehe.

The next surprise egg we got...
Nick Fury again..

The next surprise egg we got..

Falcon!
A new addition to our collection.

He is looking really cool! His red outfit and white helmet. 
He also has a dial aswell for some cool battles.

Next up I open the Moshi monster blister packs. These are season 5 Moshi monsters. You get 4 Moshi monsters and 1 surprise Moshi monster. 

Let's see what I got!
The first 4 Moshi monsters I got were:

Dr. C. Fingz, purple and cute! 
Pete with a lovely red hat.
Lila with her big yellow sunhat and
Spludnik, with his big eyes, big smile and enormous brains!

The surprise Moshi monster we got was...
Gold Cosmo Mini Moshilator!! Woohoo! Similar to the regular colored Moshilator by this is golden!

The next Moshi monster blister 5 pack we got these 4 Moshi monsters that we can see in the packet.


Left to right: Pete, Roarker, Cosmo mini moshilator and Captain Squirk.
The surprise Moshi monster we got was...
Bentley! Lovely lavender color, green eyes and a baby blue mouth. Really is a very cute surprise Moshi monster!

That's all for this video. Check out my channel and subscribe too! 

The next video I post involves something squishy and doughy! 
Until next time, keep smiling and have a great day!


Monday 23 February 2015

NEW Surprise Eggs Unboxing Avengers 2015 Thor Hulk Captain America Nick Fury

The latest video I open 4 Kinder Surprise eggs, want to see what I got?

Here is the video:



The first surprise egg I got:


Thor from the Avengers! He was very easy to assemble, I did initially have a bit of trouble putting the helmet together. By pressing his head down the spinner in his helmet will spin and will stop on a picture. The higher the number the better. You can battle other Avengers and whoever has the highest number wins. Well that's how I play anyway. 


In the next egg I got:


Captain America from the Avengers. You can push his head down and the spinner is similar to Thor's one. So you can battle each other. He came with a sticker for his shield.

In the next egg I got:

I got Nick Fury from the Avengers. He also has a spinner on his head too. 

The last egg I got:

The Hulk from the Avengers. He also has a spinner on his head too. I can battle them all and have a lot of fun! 

I had a lot of fun opening these kinder surprise eggs. Yay! 
Thanks for popping by. 

See you in the next post!




Tuesday 17 February 2015

Surprise! ♥ My Little Pony Blind Bag Opening! ♥

Welcome everyone! 
In this very first post of this very new blog, I'm going to show you what I got from the latest My Little Pony Blind Bag opening I did recently. You can view it here:



I managed to get one of the main characters of My Little Pony. Apple Jack. Yay! Her collector card says: is honest, friendly and sweet to the core.
I was pretty surprise when I did get her. I think I like her, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Apple Jack. 
I really liked Apple Jack in the episode where she tries to help everyone else and clear the apple trees of apples in the family orchard. She finally burnt herself out and made every pony sick after she became sick because she was so exhausted. It shows she is helpful but also needs to learn to ask others for help too. 

Here she is in all her glory!


The next bag I opened I got Peachy Sweet! A cute little pony. I love the names they gave the ponies. They are just so cute. It reminds me of delicious sweet peach pie. Yum! 
Here she is: 
You can't quite see the cutie mark but it is of pie. A peach pie I'm guessing. The color of her hair I'm assuming is supposed to be peach colored? Her pose is that of Apple Jack.


The next one I opened was Berryshine.
When I first saw her I thought I was lucky and got Pinky Pie. But I was mistaken hehe. Berryshine is very cute though. 
Her cutie mark is a bunch of purple grapes and a red strawberry.

In the last bag I opened I got Tropical Storm. I love that name! Tropical.. Storm! 
Here she is:
She has some pretty cool wings. I'm glad I got at least one pony with wings. I was hoping I'd get a pony with a horn, but that's ok. I'll try again next time. 
Tropical Storm's cutie mark is three rain drops. I love her pink hair, She reminds me of Fluttershy. 

So that was four my little pony blind bags, and I looked up the type of blind bag, and apparently these blind bags are from wave 9? If that makes any sense or means anything to anyone. 

I'll be opening more surprise eggs, and blind bags soon too. 

I also have a Frozen birthday party coming up that I will be attending and making the cake for. So fingers crossed all goes well with that! 

I love Frozen just as much as the next person! Awesome!

So until next time, keep smiling. 

From Olyvia the team at Collector by 7.