Tin Pot Creamery

Honest-to-goodness ice cream in inventive flavors that celebrate true craft over artificial hype. Discover pure joy in simple delights.

We believe great ice cream should feel like eating a hug.

12/11/2023

Today is National Stretching Day! Stretching improves our lifestyle and helps us live a better life. When we stretch daily, we increase our mobility and keep our muscles flexible and strong.

A few additional key benefits to stretching:

~ Relieves stiffness and soreness in your joints.
~ Increases and maintains your active range of motion.
~ Improves circulation and blood flow.
~ Supports injury prevention, enhances athletic skills and improves your ability to do daily activities.
~ Helps with stress reduction, calming the mind and decreasing tension headaches.
~ It makes you feel lighter and younger.

12/08/2023

Happy National Brownie Day!! 🤎 Our favorite way to eat a brownie? A la mode! Preferably, with Salted Butterscotch ice cream. What’s yours?

12/07/2023

Hanukkah, which means “dedication,” commemorates the miracle of light that occurred when Judah rededicated the Temple to the Hebrew god.

Hanukkah traditions is the lighting of the menorah each evening. Also known as the Hanukkah lamp, the menorah recalls the Temple lampstand and is a simple or elaborate candelabra with eight branches plus a holder for the shammash (“servant”) candle that is used to light the other eight candles. One candle is lit on the first evening, and an additional candle is lit on each subsequent evening until eight candles are burning on the last evening.

Though Hanukkah is the most widely used spelling, Chanukah is more traditional.

Love Salty and Sweet Flavors Together? Thank Your Ancestors for It. 12/04/2023

Our salted butterscotch ice cream is smooth, sweet and salty ice cream with notes of butter, brown sugar, and sea salt. This ice cream is a good balance of sweet and salty.

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All the more reason to treat yourself to a combo of salty and sweet: science-backed deliciousness. Thanks Eater

Love Salty and Sweet Flavors Together? Thank Your Ancestors for It. It’s the power couple of flavor combinations — here’s why you’re conditioned to love the two tastes together.

11/27/2023

Grabbed the essentials - let's get to shopping!
Happy Cyber Monday 💻🛍🎁

11/25/2023

Happy National Parfait Day! Inspired by a boba drink, we did our take on a tea parfait!

Blue Jasmine ice cream with ladyfingers soaked in sweetened green tea. Layers of blackberries, whipped sweet cream, coconut jelly, and chocolate shavings. Set in freezer for an hour until ice cream gets firm again. Slice & enjoy!

11/24/2023

Gobble gobble! From our family table to yours — wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving!!

Our employee, Jenny, and her family enjoying a not so turkey dinner! 🥩

11/20/2023

Happy week of Thanksgiving! Some think turkey is the center of the day, but I think it's the pie! Don't forget the ice cream - if you do, we have have you covered!

11/16/2023

Let the Thanksgiving countdown begin:
✔️ table set
✔️ turkey
✔️ sides
✔️ bubbly
❗ don't forget dessert!! 🍨

11/14/2023

Knock, knock. Who's there? It's our Tin Pot pints arriving in Southern California!☀️Beginning January 2024, we will be gracing the shelves of 28 Pavilions grocery stores!!

11/10/2023

Today, we thank our Tin Pot Veteran Family and all other veterans who served our country for generations! Thank you for your service!

11/07/2023

You matter. Your voice matters. Your vote matters.
It's Election Day: Go out and vote! 📩

11/05/2023

Happy Daylight Savings Day! Don't forget to fall back...into the freezer and grab some Tin Pot pints!

10/31/2023

Have a dino-mite Halloween! 🎃

10/29/2023

National Chocolate Day, on October 28th, recognizes one of the world's favorite tastes. While many specific chocolate-related holidays exist throughout the year, National Chocolate Day celebrates all things chocolate. 🍫 How will you celebrate?

10/24/2023

Mint in your mouth, not in your hands - well our pints do fit nicely in your hand! (if a bowl is unanvailable). 😝

10/16/2023

Becky giving side eye when product gives her the cold shoulder 😂

Happy National Boss's Day!!

10/14/2023

It's Saturday & it's National Dessert Day! How will you celebrate? Cake? Cookies? Ice cream? One scoop, two, or all eight? 🍨

10/13/2023

October can feel different for each of us — some wear pink to celebrate, some quietly observe the month, some feel grief, and some feel unseen or misunderstood. 💝
Breast Cancer Awareness Month, held in October every year, aims to promote screening and prevention of the disease, which affects one in eight women in the United States every year and 2.3 million women worldwide. 💖
October 13 is nationally recognized in the United States as Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day. 🎀

10/09/2023

Native Americans were the first occupants of this land we call our home. On the day, we honor America’s first inhabitants and the Tribal Nations that continue to thrive today and we recognize the sovereignty, resilience, and immense contributions that Native Americans have made to our great country!

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!

10/05/2023

Our vanilla bean ice cream is so darn delicious, it doesn't need a dessert to pair it with; it's made to be great on it's own.

Each batch has both pure vanilla extract and vanilla beans, hence the name, which creates that full flavor and depth. Not many know that - did you? 🤔

10/01/2023

It's Homemade Cookie Day!! Baking cookies at home is so fun! We have sugar cookie dough available at our HQ in San Carlos to make baking even easier. Email or call us to order: 💻 [email protected]
📞 (650)226-3488

-Gluten Free
-Natural Ingredients
-Frozen to Oven
-Homemade cookies in minutes!

09/25/2023

Baby Becky apple picking in the Northeast with her Dad. I don't think that Becky's parents thought that introducing their daughter to different types of food would motivate her to start an ice cream business...but it started early with her! 🤣

Happy Daughter's Day!!
📸: Becky Sunseri

09/24/2023

Here's a classic Cherry Jubilee recipe that is just perfect when served over our Tin Pot Vanilla Bean Ice Cream! 🍒

1 pound fresh or frozen ripe sweet cherries, cleaned and pitted
⅓ cup granulated sugar
juice of ½ a lemon
⅓ cup rum

In a saucepan, combine cherries, sugar, and lemon juice and heat until sauce thickens to the desired consistency.

When ready to serve, pour rum over sauce and ignite the alcohol with a utility lighter or long fireplace match. 🔥 Wait for a few seconds until the fire subsides.

Spoon desired amount of sauce over Tin Pot Vanilla ice cream. Enjoy!! 🍨

09/22/2023

Even though it's fall, it's still ice cream weather.
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The Autumnal Equinox in September ushers in a change of season. It is observed annually when the sun can be seen directly overhead along the equator. The day marks the end of summer and beginning of fall in the Northern Hemisphere.
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The autumn equinox is one of two days when all points on Earth except the polar regions see the sunrise and set at due east and due west. With few exceptions, all latitudes see almost precisely 12 hours of daylight and 12 of darkness.

09/14/2023

Those delicious little specs you see in our Malted Milkshake are chocolate sprinkles. All natural, no artificial color, full flavor. Sprinkles bring a smile to ice cream! 😉

09/11/2023

A time to remember those who died, those who served, and those who carry on. 🇺🇸

Photo by Jin Lee

09/10/2023

Grandma Joan, pictured here with little Becky, always kept the house stocked with delicious things...like ice cream for sundaes.

Shout out to all the Grandparents who inspire us today!! 🥰

Becky Sunseri

09/07/2023
09/04/2023

No matter how you decide to celebrate Labor Day, take some time to reflect and pay tribute to all the laborers, past and present!!

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Hand made ice cream and baked goods that change with the seasons!