Cremas Absalon

Founded by Charlene Absalon

Charlene Absalon is the founder and creator of Cremas Absalon. She launched the brand in 2013 after beginning a personal exploration of Haitian cooking the year before. In a 2022 interview, she described combining her IT-industry work with developing a food business, moving from kitchen experiments to commercial production. Her products center Haitian culture through cream liqueurs, coffee creamers and a history of frozen desserts.

For Charlene Absalon, the starting point was a question of representation: why were so few of the perishable foods and liqueurs she knew from Haiti available around her? In a founder interview, she traces the experiment to learning Haitian dishes in 2012 and launching Cremas Absalon the following year. The official company story likewise dates its founding to 2013. Cremas, also spelled kremas, is a sweet Haitian cream liqueur associated with celebrations and hospitality. Absalon’s Original uses a condensed-milk base with nutmeg and vanilla; the wider lineup explores coffee, chocolate-almond, crème brûlée and seasonal flavors. A plant-based Original offers a different formulation rather than changing the identity of every product in the range. Absalon took the business from a home kitchen into commercial production and, in her 2022 account, a Brooklyn storefront collaboration. Coffee creamers extend the flavor tradition into a separate, non-alcoholic format. Ice cream is part of the company’s history, but its current ice-cream shop has no products listed. This is a brand to discover for its attention to Haitian flavor and the way one food tradition can take several forms. Choose the format first, then check the particular product’s ingredients and fulfillment terms. A bottle of cremas, a vegan creamer and a frozen dessert do not share one set of alcohol, allergen or shipping assumptions.