Meet the Team: Chantelle Whyte
Chantelle Whyte is Human Resources Manager here at The Creamery. She is also constantly smiling, energetic and the perfect balance between maternal and sassy. We sat down to chat (and…
Meet the Ice Cream Makers: Progress
Progress (one name, like Beyoncé) is Head of Production at The Creamery and has been a part of our team since we started scooping in 2011. Aside from being an actual…
Meet Your Barista: Beaven Jengwa
If you want your coffee served with a smile, then Beaven is your guy. Not only does he beam from ear to ear, but his knowledge of coffee and the care…
Meet Your Barista: Thabo Siyepu
Thabo is a Creamery café supervisor and an experienced barista. He has a wonderfully calming presence at both our Salt River and Newlands Cafés. He answered some of our questions…
Introducing our Winter Flavours 2015
So here we are, entering our fourth winter. Our first two winters were tight times, but we were small enough to muddle through rained-out markets and a dearth of weddings.…
Flavour of the Month : Cookie Dough
We're excited to announce August's Flavour of the Month : Cookie Dough You asked for it, and after a few false starts and the acquisition of a blast freezer,…
The Creamery- Is our ice cream halaal?
As an independent food business, we are often asked questions about our ice cream – especially about who makes it, what’s in it, and where these ingredients come from. We…
S’mores: June’s Flavour of the Month
We're excited to announce June's Flavour of the Month is S'Mores. What are S'mores? A campfire classic, centered on the toasted marshmallow. Traditionally, S'mores (or "some more") is a toasted…
Quince
They dined on mince And slices of quince Which they ate with a runcible spoon And hand in hand On the edge of the sand They danced by the light…
Bon Rouge Pears
*I will be sharing and demonstrating our recipe for Bon Rouge Pear Ice Cream on SABC 3's Expresso Show tomorrow morning (Tues 16 april 2013), at 8.12am* Yours truly, holding…
Katawba Grapes
We really like collaborating with other businesses and organisations, so I'm really happy to be making Katawba grape ice cream with grapes grown by Soil for Life. They offer courses…
Sweet Melon Sherbet
It's really hard to grow decent sweet melons. Bugs and mould love them, they're hungry feeders, and it's very easy to end up with tasteless, watery melons for all your…
Fruit
We get more publicity from far-out flavours like Darling Brew Weisbeer, banana & candied bacon (we did this one for Frankie Fenner Meat Merchants) and sweet corn & peach, but…
Tea Time
A while ago, I bought a box of green tea at Woolworths, and promptly forgot about it at the back of a kitchen cupboard. Well, many months later I…
Six Weeks in Photos
Here are some of my favourite snaps of the action, taken in the past six weeks. FRUIT: this is such a fabulous time of year, fruit-wise. We're getting in 40-odd…
Last Minute Berry Festival!
While Cape Town is crazy busy at the moment, it seems berries don't care about human timing, and it's the height of their season. So we're having a mini berry…
First Strawberries
We've been waiting for strawberry season to start since, well, last summer's strawberry season ended in February this year. We've been irritatedly eying the super-early strawberries for sale at the…
The fortnight in Photos
The best laid plans of bloggers... today we've got a fortnight in photos, not a week in photos, but all the more behind the scenes shenanigans to share with you.…
Winter Citrus
We're enjoying a lot of different kinds of citrus at the moment, mainly from Kleinjongenskraal in (aptly named) Citrusdal. We're learning the difference between mandarins and clementines and meeting entirely…
Sundae Any Day
I've never really liked ice cream sundaes. Aside from the sheer size of the monsters, too often the ice cream is smothered in one overly sweet sauce after another, lots…