What happens during loadshedding at The Creamery?
Blackouts are an inconvenience to you as it is to us, and a lot of customers ask us: What do you do during loadshedding? Electricity is vital to our small…
A Little Help From Our Friends
I'm sorry we've been so quiet on the blog. We're coming off an epic Design Indaba, a relaxed Maynardville Open Air run, and a lovely Argus Cycle Tour (in…
Inked
Some people assume kids are our biggest, and most enthusiastic, customers. We think they'd be surprised at how often adults lose their control at the sight of ice cream. Even…
Berry Nice
This Saturday I went to meet with our new berry supplier and pick up our first batch of berries. Each summer we get blueberries and blackberries from Bloublommetjieskloof Farm (in…
Washington, DC: Sugar Magnolia
Sugar Magnolia is a tiny storefront which sells coffee, ice cream by the scoop, cookies and pre-made ice cream sandwiches. I took a posse of willing wedding friends along to…
US Trip Trends: Counters
OK, this is not so much a trend as something I'm super aware of right now. We're busy planning our stall at the new Market on the Wharf at The…
US Trip Trends: Packaging
As you'll know from our blog, our packaging is a work in progress. Having my own food production business has really made me focus on other food product packaging: materials,…
US Trip Trends: Pumpkins
If you follow US food bloggers online, I'm sure you've noticed that around October-September comes the requisite, seasonal post: something with pumpkins. It's like clockwork, and this year I've seen…
New York: Ice Cream Round Up
For information specifically on ice cream sandwiches, check out this post, here. So, it goes without saying there's lots of good ice cream in New York. And although I crammed…
New York: Ice Cream Sandwich Round Up
Melt Bakery: Peanut Butter Ice Cream, Chocolate Cookie 132 Orchard St, NY www.meltbakery.com For every specialty, New York has a producer who specializes in that specialty. Melt is New York’s…
Washington, DC: Pleasant Pops
I was very curious to see what a bricks-and-mortar ice lolly shop would look like, since I think of ice lollies as a product that is even more seasonal than…
Meet Our Team: Progress
Name: Progress Nicknames: Pro, Gadgets Job Title: Ice Cream Maker What He Actually Does: Progress and Harmony together make up our kitchen team. They process fruit as it comes in…
Can you feel it? It is (not) here (yet).
I tend to dismiss the occasional comment people make about it being too cold to eat ice cream in winter, but it's been a harder claim to make as this…
Our Ice Cream Containers
An Ice Cream Club member asked me last month in an email if we would consider replacing our plastic pint containers with cardboard containers, like they use in the USA.…
Lollies in a Garden
There's so much to see and do in the Winelands, but top of my list is always a visit to the magical vegetable gardens at Babylonstoren. We snuck into their…
Scoops & Jazz: Evening Concert
We are immensely excited to invite you to The Creamery HQ in Mowbray, for a sunset concert on our stoep. We'll be rolling our scoop counter outside to serve up…
Help us help you this Valentine’s Day…
It's a competition! Valentine’s Day is approaching and we’d like to do something special for 3 of our sweethearts... Tell us why you need help this Valentine’s Day, in the form…
Webshop… or Not
With very little fanfare, we launched our webshop the week before Christmas. Not really the ideal time, but hey, it was ready, we thought we might sell a couple pints…
Brownie Points
I showed Progress how to bake brownies today. Actually, it sort of started out as a lesson in brownie baking, segued into a lecture on the history of the ice…