Weekly Wrap-up: Birthday Season, Contest Entries and You!
We hope you’ve had as nice a week as we did here at Allison’s! Great contest entries continue to ro
ll in for our first ever Tee and Tote Design Contest. Public voting begins in mid-September and then we’ll have some lovely designs printed (on Tees and Totes!) just in time for the holidays. Yummy…
Seems like there were a million birthdays this week among our Facebook friends, so again, a happy birthday to all of you! Gift baskets sure make a birthday even more special! Whether the person you’re shopping for would just be happy with a monthly subscription or fall in love with a gourmet coffee gift basket that pairs premium-quality fair-trade coffees with cookies, brownies and confections like toffee, caramels and vegan peanut butter cups,
Tessa reviewed our price and size selection that ranges from modest Classic Elegance to superb Ultimate Nirvana decadence in her blog post earlier this week.
And you can still (I know, still?!) vote for us in VegNews, if you haven’t already…we’re so humbled to be nominated for three awards this year: best online vegan bakery, best confection, and Allison herself is nominated for best column in VegNews, Veganize It!
Keep your comments coming in over on Twitter and Facebook–we love hearing from you!
Gift Basket Giving for All Types
We know that not everyone loves shopping. While some people enjoy looking at all the options and weighing the pros and cons of each product, other customers simply want to find the quickest and simplest way to a beautiful and delicious gift. 
Now, lovers of shopping are pretty easy to please, as our website offers a multitude of delectable treats of all kinds, each with its own mouth-watering photo. But, we try to cater to all types here at Allison’s. We offer a wide range of products to please all tastes, our clientele includes vegans and non-vegans alike, and we do our very best to make shopping as involved or as simple as each person wants it to be.
So, how do we please those clients who don’t like shopping or who simply don’t have time to look through our whole product inventory for that perfect present? 
For these non-shoppers, we’ve done the work for you to make gift-giving easy and enjoyable. Stop shopping around and look no further than our elegant vegan gift baskets. We select and pack them with the utmost care and attention to detail, they make gorgeous and delicious gifts and are available in a range of sizes and prices. We work hard to make sure that our collections include something for everyone. Our gourmet coffee gift baskets pair premium-quality fair-trade coffees with cookies, brownies and confections like toffee, caramels and vegan peanut butter cups, while our price and size selection ranges from modest Classic Elegance to superb Ultimate Nirvana decadence.
As a special bonus for those of you who do love shopping around for your own selection of treats, we also offer a semi-secret custom gift basket option. Simply add this Custom Gift Basket to your cart along with all the things you’d like us to put in it. We recommend that you include at least eight items in your custom basket to ensure an elegant and abundant presentation. Happy shopping (or not)!
Gourmet Gift Baskets: What’s in a Name?
Today I’ve been thinking about words, more precisely, the words we used to name our gift baskets when we were designing our new website around this time last year. The question back then was, how do we convey the essence of a complex item like a gourmet coffee gift baskets in one or two words? What follows here are the names of our five gift baskets along with my own personal description of each one. I think we did a pretty good job.
The smallest of our gift basket we named Classic Elegance. With an elegant selection of a few classic products, it says “Thank You” or “Congratulations” without breaking the bank. The Sweet Desires and the Office Party baskets were next. I imagine the Sweet Desires basket as being just right for a romantic weekend. A sweet selection of our premium treats, it’s the perfect way to say “I love you.” 
The Office Party was the most fun to name. We designed this gourmet coffee gift basket with an office holiday party in mind. It includes larger portions of several of our classic products, and a 12oz bag of our organic, fair-trade coffee, or course. The Decadent Bliss Gift Basket is a truly decadent selection of basically all our favorite things in the world, while the Ultimate Nirvana is an absolute cascade of amazing deliciousness that will send its recipient straight to chocolate-lover’s heaven.
If you’ve received any of these baskets, or even if you’ve just looked at the pictures, we’d love to know how you would name them. 
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.
Gift Baskets for Everyone
With Valentine’s Day next month, I want to make sure that I get the word out about our gourmet gift baskets. We try to truly have something for everyone in these baskets and they make great gifts. Here are three of my favorites:
“Sweet Desires” is one of our gourmet coffee gift basket. It contains organic cookies, brownies, toffee, brittle, peanut butter cups and four varieties of fair-trade coffee. The “Ultimate Nirvana” is our top-shelf basket including a decadent selection of all our best treats. Another gourmet coffee gift basket in our line-up is the “Office Party,” great for hosting a decadently healthy soiree. It boasts a bounty of vegan and organic fudge, brownies, cookies, caramels and 12oz of organic, fair-trade coffee beans. Enjoy!
Baskets of Goodies
It seems to me that everyone likes the idea of gift baskets, but in actuality most of them are crowded with strange
food you would never actually buy for yourself. Not so our elegant vegan gift baskets which come to you (or your loved one or colleague) abundant in a gorgeous selection of our exquisite, premium quality products, plus a hand written gift card. Ranging in size from the Classic Elegance, which offers tasteful desserts for 2-4, to the Ultimate Nirvana with enough goodies for an entire office, staff, or holiday party, our vegan gift baskets are a great way to introduce your friends and co-workers to how just beautiful, delicious and compassionate gift giving can be.
