Easter and Springtime Giveaway!
Spring has sprung and we’re celebrating! Easter and Passover are in just two short weeks, and Allison’s birthday is coming up on March 25th.
Join the party! Post here on our blog telling us your favorite vegan party treat and one lucky chocolate lover will win a Springtime surprise!
Sip a Sweet Springtime Treat
Looking for a sweet treat that won’t expand your waistline? Believe it or not, iced tea is one of my favorite warm-weather treats. It’s cool, sweet and refreshing, and, if you use herbal tea and stevia, it’s not sugary or caffeinated. 
We have several delicious fair-trade teas and tisanes (herbal teas) here at Allison’s, but my favorite flavor right now is our Rooibos Chai. I brew it in the evenings in quart jars, put it in the fridge over night, add a splash of nut milk and a few drops of stevia and bring it to work with me. It’s spicy and refreshing to sip on all day, plus, it curbs my sweet tooth and helps me stay hydrated. I also love that my glass jars or stainless steel bottles are more sustainable than store-bought glass or plastic ones, and my homemade, fair-trade tea tastes better than store-bought, too!
Elegant New Look for Our Gift Baskets
You may have noticed that, along with our fabulous new website, our packaging is changing as well. 
Coming soon, the elegant new look for a gourmet coffee gift basket will include a chocolate colored baskets, lavender basket filling, and a clear bag so you can see what’s inside. Perfect for many occasions, and including everything from organic cookies and brownies to delectable confections and gourmet coffee, gift baskets are a wonderful way to show your love or gratitude to your family, friends or colleagues. Also, we’re celebrating spring with our Easter and Springtime Gift Basket!
Easter is Just Around the Corner
Easter will be here before we know it, and there’s still plenty of time to order your vegan Easter treats. Although it often seems like a silly holiday with the pastel colors and bunnies with eggs, there are still fun ways to celebrate this holiday of springtime and new life. When I was a kid, my mom used to grow Easter baskets for my sister and I every year. She’d sprout wheat berries in soil-filled baskets and my sister and I would get to water our baskets every day. On Easter morning our lush baskets could be found hiding somewhere in the house with chocolate goodies hidden in the tall, thick grass, which, incidentally, was pretty tasty all by itself.
If growing your own Easter basket seems a little too involved, try our elegant Easter and Springtime Gift Basket complete with paper “grass” in any color you choose.
Loving Vegan Toffee
We just made another fresh batch of chocolate covered vegan toffee this morning, and let me tell you, it is beautiful! 
Crispy, sweet and crunchy, with that lavish chocolate layer to finish it off; this really is one of my favorite confections of all time. It’s also one of our most popular, flying out the door almost as fast as we can make it.
Can you tell I’m really loving our vegan toffee right now? Just wanted to share that love with all of you!
In the Works: Gluten-Free and Sugar-Free Baked Goods
One of our goals here at Allison’s Gourmet is to offer the very best, most delicious, premium sweets available. We strive to create elegant, delicious vegan desserts that everyone can enjoy. In that direction we’ve been doing all kinds of baking tests lately working on making gluten- and sugar-free versions of our organic brownies and cookies that are just as good as our originals. Today we tested a gluten-free version of our classic chocolate chip cookies with organic coconut sugar and they turned out really good! We’re still perfecting the gluten- and sugar-free organic brownies, but are confident that we’ll get there!!
We want to know: is gluten-free important to you? How about sugar-free?
Personalized Gourmet Vegan Wedding and Party Favors
An order of our vegan wedding favors this morning reminded me that wedding season is only a few months away and no doubt brides-to-be are already planning.
If you’re planning a vegan wedding or want elegant, gourmet wedding favors for your big day we have a gorgeous selection of truffles and caramels for you to choose from in either 2-piece or 4-piece boxes. Our vegan wedding favors could also be party favors or small gifts for many kinds of occasions. We even supply these as hospitality gifts to our favorite upscale B&B. You may select one of several beautiful box colors and we even print a personalized message on the boxes for you. Let us help you make your day especially delicious.
Our New Look
If you’ve received orders from us recently, you may have noticed that our look is changing. The new website was the first step, and now we’re upgrading our packaging as well. We’re already 
phasing in our luscious new lavender embossed purple chocolate boxes, and soon we’ll be introducing gorgeous new gift boxes, post cards and gift cards, too. A few other things have also changed. Our hot cocoa is now called drinking chocolate, many of our gift baskets, gift sets and samplers have new looks as well as new names, and coming soon, all of our products will have lovely new labels. So, keep an eye out for your next order, our new look is coming to life, one piece at a time.
Monthly Club Orders Are on Their Way!
We’ve been busy at Allison’s Gourmet vegan bakery this week. As well as doing several gluten free cookie and brownie tests, 
we also shipped all the monthly club orders on Monday. Our monthly clubs offer a scrumptious variety of baked goods delivered fresh from our vegan bakery to your doorstep every month. So, if you belong to one of our clubs, your order will be arriving soon! This month’s club flavors include amazing Butterscotch Pecan Cookies, heavenly Original Brownies, and awesome Vanilla Chai Fudge. These flavors will also be available individually on our website while supplies last. Enjoy!
Update from Allison’s Test Kitchen
In the Allison’s Gourmet Test Kitchen today we had fun testing a gluten free version of our vegan brownies. 
The best part about doing recipe tests is that we get to eat whatever we make and then figure out how it could be better. We’re always trying to improve our products. The brownies today didn’t turn out quite perfectly, but pretty close; we’ll keep trying. Stay tuned… if we’re able to get these tests to come out right we might be offering really awesome gluten free vegan brownies on our website at some point in the future! Let us know here, on our blog, if gluten free baked goods are something that would interest you.