Our Elves are Ready for Your Last Minute Orders!
Happy Solstice everyone! It’s the darkest day of the year, and what better time to celebrate the return of the light and cheer people up with delicious vegan goodies?
Our little bakery elves are busy as can be here at Allison’s, and for those of you caught up in last minute shopping, we’ve got you covered! 
Order your vegan Samplers, Gift Sets and Gourmet Coffee Gift Baskets today with 2-day air shipping, or before midnight tomorrow (Wednesday) with FedEx Overnight shipping for guaranteed delivery by Christmas Eve! (Whoever came up with Overnight shipping was a genius!) Make your loved ones grin with glee when they open and devour some surprise vegan treats from Allison’s Gourmet!
Gift Sets: Perfect Treats, All Wrapped Up
Our gourmet gift sets have been gaining popularity recently, I couldn’t be more thrilled. Deliciously decadent without being junk food, and elegant but not overwhelming, these Gift Sets make excellent fair-trade gifts to express your love and appreciation for friends, loved ones and colleagues. 
Besides the obvious Chocolate Lover’s Gift Set, we also offer a Classic Vanilla Lover’s Gift Set for those with more traditional tastes. For the more adventurous types, try the exciting Spice Lover’s Gift Set.
Other luscious fair-trade gifts for you to choose from include Organic Tea, Coffee and Drinking Chocolate Samplers.
Monthly Clubs, Baskets and Samplers, Oh My!
If you’re anything like me, each new month here at Allison’s brings new cravings for all the marvelous new monthly flavors. Even if you’re not a monthly club member, there are several ways to get your hands on an awesome selection of our vegan baked goods. Several of our vegan gift baskets include a variety of cookie flavors, and for even more variety our Decadent Bliss and Ultimate Nirvana vegan gift baskets also include a baker’s choice selection of our vegan fudge and heavenly brownies. Our Just Cookies, Baker’s Choice and Baker’s Choice Ultimate Samplers also offer a variety of cookie flavors for your sampling pleasure as well as different sizes of original and pecan brownies to satisfy your chocolate-tooth. So, stop craving and start enjoying all the flavors of these pure, compassionate treats.
Tips for Shipping in the Summer Heat
Ordering perishable items in the summer can be a bit of a pain. You either have to order chill packs and faster shipping, which means more money, or you risk receiving melted and/or spoiled products. However, you can minimize this hassle for yourself by ordering products that are less perishable and more hearty when it comes to heat exposure. Our Classic and Spiced Peanut Brittle, Classic Almond Toffee, and individually-wrapped Caramels, for example, will ship well without being adversely effected by the summer heat. Our fresh-baked cookies and brownies, are actually surprisingly good at enduring high temperatures as well. Sealed in their plastic bags they won’t go stale or spoil even with our slowest shipping method (which is only 3-4 days). Ordering flavors without chocolate chips also makes your life easier, although the chips and the cookies are no worse for some melted chocolate, just perhaps a bit messier. Coffee, Tea and Drinking Chocolate are other obvious choices for summer shipping, although you may need to remind your recipient that these drinks are as delicious served iced as they are hot.
For heat-friendly gift combos, look no further than our Classic Vanilla Lover’s and Spice Lover’s Gift Sets which include Toffee, Caramels and Peanut Brittle, or our Cookie, Brownie, and Beverage Samplers.
If you do decide to order a more perishable item, especially one containing chocolate, we strongly encourage you to include the recommended chill pack in your order as well as choosing FedEx 2-day air shipping, as our chill packs only remain cold for 2 days.
PS. For those of you wondering about your monthly club orders, today is a shipping holiday, so we will be shipping all the monthly clubs tomorrow, for delivery later in the week. 
Personalized Corporate Gift Giving
Most people love sweet treats, especially when they’re surprisingly delicious and high quality. We offer a variety of elegant sweets fitting that description and making excellent corporate food gifts including, cookie and brownie samplers, confectionery gift sets and gorgeous gift baskets. 
They’re perfect for sharing around the office or as gifts to business partners and associates. Since they’re vegan, they contain no cholesterol and they’re also organic and fair-trade, so everyone can feel good about enjoying them. We love personalizing our corporate food gifts with hand-written gift cards and either gift wrap, for the samplers and sets, or a variety of basket filling colors for our elegant gift baskets.
