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 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.…
The Creamery & Saszali bring you easy, delicious desserts
Welcome to our second The Creamery & Saszali Creative Colab, bringing you a series of inspiring and easy desserts. The lovely Sarah & Jane of Saszali and our Katy Rose…
The Creamery & Saszali bring you delicious, easy desserts
This is the first in our The Creamery & Saszali Creative Colab, bringing you a series of inspiring and easy desserts. The holiday season is almost upon us:…
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…
Cream Team Picks: Top 5 Flavours
Most of our staff have been with us now for three or more seasons, so we thought we'd take a quick census on their top 5 favourite flavours, and their…
Summer, Reviewed
Soooo.... summerrrrr. I feel like we can talk about summer in the past tense now, since a) all our weddings/festivals ended last week, and b) even as a winter-denialist,…
Rebrand: Who is The Creamery?
So. I spoke a little bit about the motivations behind our rebranding project, here. To kickstart the rebrand, the ridiculously talented and creative people we have hired to assist us…
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…
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…
The Tardy List
So. Despite longing for warm weather for most of winter, now that it's almost here, we still haven't managed to do half the things we said we would, and we…
Ten Things
So, we're now less than two months away from The Creamery's first birthday, and it's making me reflect on our first year in business. Now, there's generally very little time…