Trendy ice cream stars in a new food truck parked inside Raleigh’s Crabtree mall

A new food truck is taking the cereal and ice cream craze indoors.

Creamed, a new ice cream food truck, is now open in Raleigh’s Crabtree Valley Mall.

Owned by married couple Fitz and Denee Guerna, Creamed operates as a pair of ice cream bars built into two vintage French vans. The menu is vanilla, chocolate and swirl soft serve blended with a dozen different cereal options. There are also milkshakes, candy toppings and syrup drizzles.

Fitz Guerna said Creamed is inspired by similar cereal-based ice cream shops he and his wife had tried in New York and Paris.

“We travel a lot and we saw this concept in Paris,” Guerna said. “We did our research and there’s nothing else like it here in North Carolina.”

Creamed calls its style “cereal-infused” ice cream, with the soft serve flavors blended with popular cereal brands. Guerna said the couple was inspired by the New York brand Milk & Cream and wanted to see something similar in the Triangle.

“We were looking at food trucks and were thinking of ice cream,” Guerna said. “In North Carolina, we saw a lot of opportunity because we don’t have a cereal-infused ice cream parlor.”

The couple moved to North Carolina from New York in 2015. Fitz Guerna said their day job is operating a medical tourism company that offers recovery homes for patients after getting plastic surgery in Cali, Colombia.

Guerna said the family wanted to open a food truck business as something fun closer to home. For now there are two trucks, one that will stay at the mall and a second that will travel the Triangle, setting up outside offices and downtown buildings and daycares. But the couple hope those two will turn into a fleet of sweet treats.

“This is for my kids and it’s for the community,” Guerna said. “It’s something fresh. We’re looking forward to having many more all over RDU.”