Two-day batches
Every base rests overnight before it ever touches the churn. Low overrun, dense texture, no air whipped in to fake the volume. What you scoop is what we made — heavy, cold, and honest.
Our Story · Est. 2017
Born in a machine shop.
Churned by hand.
Crunchy Super creamery is a family-run scoop hall on Union Ave — part old Cranston iron, part taproom soul, all small-batch ice cream. This is how two friends, one rusty hand-crank churn, and a stubborn belief in crunch built it.
How it started
Two friends and one busted hand-crank churn
Mara Devaney and Theo Braswell met in 2014 washing kegs at a Providence brewery. Mara ran the cellar by day and tinkered with a 1920s White Mountain hand-crank churn by night, bringing tubs of ice cream to staff parties. The night her salted pretzel crunch disappeared in four minutes flat — before the brisket was even sliced — Theo told her, “You’re in the wrong tank room.”
They spent 2016 hauling a cooler and a hand-painted sign to the Cranston farmers market, selling out of pints most Saturdays before noon. In March 2017 they signed the lease on a vacant tool-and-die shop at 6792 Union Ave, Cranston, RI 02910 — all brick, sawdust, and one glorious overhead crane rail they refused to tear out.
They kept the rail. They kept the brick. They painted the cold room the deep teal of old rust patina and pulled the coral straight off the building’s faded original sign for the stools and the scoop counter. The first flavor off the line was Union Ave Crunch, and it’s still on the board today — right next to whatever Mara couldn’t resist testing that week.
Kitchen philosophy
Slow churn, loud crunch
We run our creamery the way our old brewery ran its tanks: small vessels, patient timing, and nothing poured that we wouldn’t proudly hand to a neighbor.
Rhode Island dairy first
Our milk and cream come from family farms within sixty miles of the shop. Egg yolks enter only when a flavor genuinely asks for them — never as a shortcut.
Crunch built in-house
Brittles, pretzel pralines, brown-butter crumbs and honeycomb are made daily in the back kitchen and folded in by hand. Texture isn’t a topping here. It’s the whole point.
No jars with labels
If we can’t roast it, zest it, or steep it ourselves, it doesn’t go in the tank. Vanilla means real pods. Coffee means real beans. Strawberry means a very red kitchen in June.
The crew
The people behind the counter
Mara, Theo, and the scoop crew in the hall — photographed under the original crane rail we swore we’d never remove. Most of our team grew up within walking distance of the shop; a few can still bike here in under ten minutes.
Rooted on Union Ave
A scoop hall is a neighborhood thing
We didn’t move to Cranston — we were already here. The hall hosts school-night scoops for local classrooms, free cones after Little League wins, and a standing tradition of dropping off pints at the Cranston food bank every holiday season. Our regulars have their stools, the team knows their orders, and more than one first date at our counter has turned into an anniversary sundae reservation.
Everything we can source close, we do — from the dairy in our tanks to the coffee in our affogato to the honey in the honeycomb crunch. The crane rail overhead came with the building. The community came with the address. We just brought the ice cream.
“A good scoop hall works exactly like a good taproom — small tanks, honest ingredients, and a counter where everybody knows the regulars’ order. The crunch is just our way of saying hello.”
Visit the hall
Come taste the story
The stools are coral, the tanks are teal, and something is always fresh out of the churn.
- 6792 Union Ave, Cranston, RI 02910
- (401) 476-7149
- hello@cscreamery.shop
Mon–Fri 11:00–21:30, Sat 12:00–22:30, Sun 12:00–20:00