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Steemit Sandwich Contest Week #85 - Hot Cross Bun Ice Cream Sandwich

A Hot Cross Bun Ice Cream Sandwich was what I made as comfort food after a weekend of water and power issues, while having guests in our BnB I must add!

The geyser burst Thursday morning in the guest cottage, guests were expected that evening! It was a public holiday and the plumbers could not find a geyser until we said we'd pay up front and claim back from the insurance, suddenly the geyser was obtainable and the crisis was averted in time!

We have something called Loadshedding whereby power is switched off block by block for two hours at a time - we fortunately are in a block that's hardly ever affected, but this Thursday night we had the power cut as the guests arrived, fortunately still light! Loadshedding is not a nice word around here but has anyone ever heard of a company that asks it's customers to be frugal with it's product - in this instance electricity? Big corruption behind that story, some of my @teamsouthafrica members have already written about this!

Anyone ever been to the Victoria Falls and heard the thunder? A very good friend went recently, could not stop talking about it and shared her photos with me, thank you Pat!

We were awoken by the roar of water thundering right here in our house in the dead of the night - a waterpipe burst under the bath tub and the pressure from the municipal water supply caused a massive pumping action which flooded one entire wing of the house! We could almost swim to the other side of the house!

So how about some comfort food to end all this craziness!

Spicy Hot Cross Bun
Chocolate Ice Cream
Smooth silky Swiss Chocolate filled with praline & a nut
Red grapes to make up for all the indulgence

How about making a sandwich with this? Can be done as I found out :)

Hot Cross bun was toasted

Melted Chocolate bar used as a sandwich base and topping

Generous scoop of Chocolate Ice Cream the main and only filling

The remaining melted chocolate poured over the top

The all important validation photo

*Lovely spicy Hot Cross Bun Sandwich oozing with Chocolate Ice Cream & lip smacking chocolate on top.

So guys and dolls, never forget that a sandwich always comes to the rescue no matter what, so why not show us your sandwiches right here on @jaybird's Steemit Sandwich Contest Week#85, look forward to seeing your sandwiches.

A massive thank you to @jaybird for hosting this contest for 85 weeks already, really is amazing! A huge shout out to @llfarms for the sponsorship!

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Comments · 9

@janton(71)· 2719d
Howdy lizelle! I've been hearing about all the utility problems down there, the whole government needs replaced. Sorry you guys have to live with that situation. But at least you have some great comfort food, that looks dreamy!
@thesteemengine(65)· 2722d
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@papilloncharity(83)· 2723d
Goodness food after the badness of loadshedding is great! We are in a hot spot as usual and get 3 cuts for 2 and a half hours each every day. 10am, 12noon and 6pm. I feel for the small business owners! Blessings!
@joanstewart(75)· 2724d
Haha, for a minute I thought it was peanut butter, chocolate and ice cream melting over a toasted hot-cross bun sounds way more like a comfort food.

Oh load shedding, water problems, pay, pay, pay, while others play! Story of our lives.
@thesteemengine(65)· 2724d

It was a public holiday and the plumbers could not find a geyser until we said we'd pay up front and claim back from the insurance, suddenly the geyser was obtainable and the crisis was averted in time!

Like magic!!
@anneke(70)· 2724d
Well you deserved this comfort food - o yes the wonderful loadshedding...This just proves again that almost anything will be better with icecream and chocolate
@birdsinparadise(68)· 2724d
Oh my word! What a weekend you have had @lizelle!!! Needless to say, a sandwich like this is the only thing to sooth the soul. Wow! Choco-licious indeed! So creative, even after all of this trauma. I can't believe your electricity is randomly shut off, I am so sorry! Really stinks and then to have the tub plumbing burst. I hope the ice cream sandwich helped a bit. Blessings my friend
@tattoodjay(83)· 2724d
Load shedding is never fun I have lived in a few places where it was common, one place we only had electricity for like 4 hours a day for a few months if we were luckyLuckily we had a generator for when we needed it but still had to be careful with that as getting fuel was not always easy

So sorry to hear about the water pipe burst

Never tried hot cross buns with ice cream, but I am sure that must be a real nice combination
@jaybird(75)· 2724d
Oh shiiiiiiiit! So sry to hear about the pipe burst! Love the sandwich tho lol.

Bout time some1 made an ice cream sandwich :)