BAKE MEMORIES AT HOME
Wonderland Bakery ® launches “Bake Memories at Home Desserts”
Wonderliciously packaged collection of gourmet desserts are available nationwide
Wonderland Bakery®, a continues to expand nationwide with their Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery ® “Bake Memories at Home Dessert Collection.” Decorating at Home Kits, Red Velvet Cupcakes, Double Fudge Brownies, Sparkling Sugar Cookies, Gingerbread Cookies and other whimsically fun and creatively delicious desserts and decorating kits created by Chef Allyson Ames are available at retail stores and online nationwide.
Founder, Chef Allyson continues to think ‘inside the box’ – inside the cupcake, cookie, and brownie box. Her famous desserts that have become all the rage are now available packaged to decorate and bake at home. “Some of my best memories are baking with my mom and creating desserts for my friends” says Ames. “With families eating out less and watching their budget, our mixes help to create an ‘indulgent homemade dessert’ where everyone gets to be the artist and it is great fun for all ages too”
In addition to setting trends in cupcakes, cookies and confections, Wonderland Bakery® has built a strong brand and a loyal following. Expansion plans include coast to coast presence with top tier nationwide retailers, airport stores and high-profile concierge locations with beautifully crafted point of sale displays. Populated with Wonderland Bakery ® Brand merchandise, each point-of-sale display will include bake at home mixes, aprons, tea sets, cupcake purses, clothing, and the animated talking Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery® Bear by Gund.
Additionally, private label corporate gifts and gift baskets are available for nationwide shipping. Other gifts include Gingerbread cookies packaged in a Wonderland Bakery® Castle, cookie decorating party kits, personalized
holiday cookies and other unique and memorable gifts for every occasion.
About Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery ® and Wonderland Bakery ®Lifestyle Brands:
Wonderland Bakery ® and Wonderland Bakery® Lifestyle Brands was founded in 2005 by Allyson Ames, a woman owned business, specializing in desserts and products that inspire your taste buds and imagination and has grown to a national brand and favorites of families, celebrities, and anyone with a sweet tooth. Allyson is set for next level growth expanding beyond baking with expansion; licensing ventures; merchandising program and the development of various entertainment properties including an animated series and TV show. For more information, please visit www.WonderlandBakery.com
THE SWEETEST GINGERBREAD COOKIE IN ALL THE LAND
Created by Chef Allyson Ames, co-owner at Wonderland Bakery ®
The Wonderland Bakery® Gingerbread Man serves as the best gingerbread cookie in all the land and the official cookie of the holidays at Wonderland Bakery®.
Making his debut in 2005, the earliest version of The Wonderland Bakery® Gingerbread Man was created by Celebrity Chef Allyson Ames when she was just a small child. By then, the culinary prodigy had developed her passion for baking and had been dreaming up recipes to mix and bake whimsical delectables in her mom’s kitchen for years.
Today, The Wonderland Bakery® Gingerbread Man is pulled from the oven, toasty warm, every day of the year in the enchanting kitchen at Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery®.
A leader among his peers, The Wonderland Bakery® Gingerbread Man currently holds the title of “Best gingerbread cookie in the country” according to Whoopi Goldberg on “The View.” Goldberg chose Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery ®Gingerbread Man because his taste and texture was most reminiscent of the classic holiday treats that she enjoyed as a child. She searched coast-to-coast, but stopped her search once she bit into Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery® Gingerbread Man. After that one bite, it was clear to her that “Wonderland Bakery ® made the cookie with the right combination of ingredients including gingerbread and raisins,” while further expressing that he has “that groove when you eat him,” said Goldberg.
Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery ®Gingerbread man is soft, chewy, delicious, baked fresh and available for nationwide shipping. The secret recipe includes just the right mix of ingredients. He’s sweet and handsome; his rounded human shape is accented with happy eyes, a charming smile, heart-shaped buttons and festive shirt and pant cuffs.
While he can be bought and consumed all by his lonesome, Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery ®Gingerbread Man prefers to be packaged with other festive holiday treats as part of the “Gingerbread in Wonderland Bakery ® Collection.” The collection pairs Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery ®Gingerbread Men with colorful Wonderland Bakery® Castle that makes for his perfect home in all the kingdom, Wonderland Bakery ®Sweet Treat pink or blue stockings, pink aprons and blue aprons and other unique and whimsical Wonderland Bakery® brand merchandise. He can also be packaged in gift tins and as part of cookie decorating sets that bring joy and wonder to the holiday season.
Along with the traditional gingerbread man, the bakery offers the ‘Gingerbread Celebrity Series’ complete with an array of cookies stylized and decorated to look like your favorite celebrity packaged in a Wonderland Bakery® castle.
The Wonderland Bakery® Gingerbread treats can also be baked at home using the “Gingerbread Cookies” pre-packaged dessert mix from Chef Ames’s “Bake Memories at Home Desserts” collection. The collection of delicious desserts that will inspire your imagination and taste buds are available at Wonderland Bakery, online and at nationwide locations during the holiday season.
About Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery ® and Wonderland Bakery ®Lifestyle Brands:
Wonderland Bakery ® and Wonderland Bakery® Lifestyle Brands was founded in 2005 by Allyson Ames, a woman owned business, specializing in desserts and products that inspire your imagination and taste buds has grown to a national brand and favorites of families, celebrities, and anyone with a sweet tooth. Allyson is set for next level growth expanding beyond baking with expansion; licensing ventures; merchandising program and the development of various entertainment properties including an animated series and TV show. For more information, please visit www.WonderlandBakery.com
ERNST & YOUNG LLP’S ENTREPRENEURIAL WINNING WOMEN ™
Allyson Ames, Founder and CEO of Wonderland Lifestyle Brands and Wonderland Bakery ®, named
Ernst & Young Entrepreneurial Winning Women program a group of 10 women selected nationwide
Wonderland Lifestyle Brands and Wonderland Bakery announced today that Allyson Ames, Founder and CEO, was named one of Ernst & Young LLP’s Entrepreneurial Winning Women. Ames is one of 10 exceptional women entrepreneurs recognized throughout the country with this prestigious award.
A national competition, the program is intended to help women entrepreneurs break through the barriers that keep thriving business from scaling to their full potential Entrepreneurs selected annually participate in customized program designed by Ernst & Young to catalyze their companies’ growth by building relationships, enhancing leadership skills, expanding business know-how and providing increased visibility. Ernst & Young provides program participants evergreen access to our vast resources, rich networks and know-how, helping to strengthen their abilities to become market leaders. At the same time, the program creates a vibrant global community of successful women entrepreneurs and inspiring peer role models who, in 2022, numbered more than 800 across 49 countries.
According to a recent impact assessment directed by the Babson College Center for Women’s Leadership, revenues of program participants’ companies have grown an average of nearly 50% each year, with a corresponding 25% average annual growth in the number of jobs.
“This is an exciting time in my business with the expansion of the brand beyond baking to include lifestyle products, through licensing, media and entertainment properties,” says Ames. “The resources, programs and mentoring within the Ernst & Young Women Entrepreneurial Winning Women program is the catalyst that will help to scale my business exponentially, “says Ames.
“Over the past several years, the Entrepreneurial Winning Women program has grown into a highly competitive platform to help women entrepreneurs think bigger and scale their companies to new heights,” said Kerrie MacPherson, Partner, Ernst & Young LLP. “Allyson Ames is an exceptional business leader with extraordinary potential, and we are pleased to honor Allyson as one of this year’s winners, “says Mac Pherson.
About Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery ® and Wonderland Bakery ®Lifestyle Brands:
Wonderland Bakery ® and Wonderland Bakery® Lifestyle Brands was founded in 2005 by Allyson Ames, a woman owned business, specializing in desserts and products that inspire your imagination and taste buds has grown to a national brand and favorites of families, celebrities, and anyone with a sweet tooth. Allyson is set for next level growth expanding beyond baking with expansion; licensing ventures; merchandising program and the development of various entertainment properties including an animated series and TV show. For more information, please visit www.WonderlandBakery.com
DISNEY’S ALICE IN WONDERLAND COMES TO ALLYSON’S WONDERLAND BAKERY®
Allyson Ames, Wonderland Bakery® Founder, Turns Fantasy into a Thematic Bakery
Experience with an Alice in Wonderland Bakery® Special Interactive Event
Enter the world of Wonderland Bakery® at the seasonal location when Walt Disney Pictures takes visitors behind the scenes into making the magical world of the blockbuster movie ALICE IN WONDERLAND in a special interactive experience to held at Wonderland Bakery®.
Displays of the Mad Hatter costume, production designs, visual effects and animation, and an opportunity to be photographed with Wonderland Bakery®, Founder Allyson Ames, who will help take visitors down the rabbit hole into the extraordinary world envisioned by director Tim Burton for the multi-award-nominated film that takes Lewis Carroll’s classic story to the big screen.
Wonderland Bakery® visitors can expect to see how the imagery and animation was created by the visual effects team lead by Academy Award®-winner Ken Ralston and artists at Sony Pictures Imageworks. The Mad Hatter costume, actually worn in the movie by Johnny Depp, will be on display for visitors to see close up. Concept art and designs by Academy Award-winning production designer Rob Stromberg will also be shown.
“We are excited to participate with Walt Disney Pictures and Sony Pictures Imageworks to create this one-of-a-kind experience at Wonderland Bakery ®as we continue to share our passion and inspiration for desserts and bring
our imagination to the Wonderland Bakery ® brand experience. Families can bring home bake sets, aprons, books, dolls, clothing, bakeware,decorate at home kits and other whimsically unique gifts and entertainment properties,” said Allyson Ames.
About Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery ® and Wonderland Bakery ®Lifestyle Brands:
Wonderland Bakery is an authentic kids’ brand targeting the fun experience around baking and delicious desserts. Founded in 2005, Wonderland Bakery’s deeply loyal following, fantastical design, high quality dessert, whimsical gift and branded toys selection have culminated in establishing Wonderland Bakery® as a powerful kids’ brand with a nationwide customer base. Founders, Allyson Ames and her mother, Sondra Ames, are set for next levels of brand growth that will include expansion; licensing ventures; merchandising programs and the development of various entertainment properties including an animated series and TV show. For more information, please visit www.WonderlandBakery.com
Founder, Allyson Ames create successful sweets
event at Wonderland Bakery for Disney, Sony & Warner Bros.
Disney’s Alice in Wonderland at Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery® based on the Lewis Carroll’s classic tale.
Yogi and Boo Boo bear enjoy a picnic basket of treats with Allyson Ames, Wonderland Bakery® Founder.
MLB ALL STAR COOKIE
Chef Allyson Ames Selected to Create Cookies for MLB All Star and Angels Event
Wonderland Bakery,® was selected to create the cookies, desserts and logo tins filled with confections for the MLB All Star post game party hosted at Angel Stadium, Anaheim, California.
Founder, Chef Allyson Ames known for her unique desserts was appointed by the Angels who are hosting the event to create the official signature cookie and memorable Angel’s logo gift tin for the celebration. The ovens and staff at Wonderland Bakery ® were working overtime to create a sweet line up for the VIP event serving over 1,000 guests, players, and sponsors.
We are very excited to celebrate the MLB All Star game.” says Ames “I have been an Angels fan since I was five years old and named the team honorary bat girl.” adds Ames, “Today it’s a dream to be back on the field (this time) with a Wonderland Bakery® apron delivering a ‘sweet home run’ for the Angels team.” says Ames.
Ames, aways an Angels fan, today it’s a dream to be back on the field delivering a sweet home run.
Ames, age 5, was the Angels Bat Girl lined up with the team for The National Anthem.
Angels cookies created for 1,000 VIP guests, players and sponsors.
WONDERLAND BAKERY ®CHEF ALLYSON AMES NAMED ONE OF THE TOP YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS IN AMERICA
APPEARANCES ON NBC’s ‘THE TODAY SHOW’ AND CNBC’s ‘SQUAWK ON THE STREET’ARE SCHEDULED
Wonderland Bakery® co-founder, Celebrity Chef Allyson Ames, was name one of the Top Young Entrepreneurs in America by Mark Victor Hansen, respected authority in the area of human potential and creator of the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
Hansen’s new book, The Richest Kids in America, is the result of a three-year research project in which he set out to chronicle the journeys of North America’s most successful young entrepreneurial superstars.
Hansen tells the inspiring story of Ames, who has steadfastly pursued her passion for baking and childhood dream of having her own “wonderland” to share with others.
Allyson Ames will begin a media tour sharing her story including NBC, The Today Show, The Tonight Show, Food Network, CNBC Squawk on the Street, ABC, The View and other national media.
Founded in 2005 and a woman owned business, Ames has created Wonderland Bakery ® specializing in delicious desserts and whimsical products that has grown to a national brand and favorites of families, celebrities, and anyone with a sweet tooth.
She has created cookies for the White House including the last two inaugural events, baked the reigning “Best Gingerbread Cookie” according to Whoopi Goldberg and The View and named Entrepreneur Magazine’s top ten “Personal Brands” , INC magazine 5000 “Fastest Growing Brands” National Association of Woman Business Owners (NAWBO) Entrepreneur of the Year and Ernst & Young’s National Entrepreneurial Winning Award.
Ames is a culinary prodigy who started cooking and baking at age five, was named The Best Young Chef in America at age 17. She is the Official Sweet Ambassador for Newport Beach, was tapped to participate at the Power of Youth as one of the hottest Hollywood young celebrities by Variety magazine.
She has recently added to her brand a collection of “Bake Memories at Home” desserts, a mesmerizing line of merchandise, baking kits, tea sets, a best-selling book, Wonderlicious- The Enchanting and Delicious Wonderland Bakery ® Adventure read-a-long to the animated, talking Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery® Bear by Gund ®.
This holiday season, Ames and Wonderland Bakery ®will commence an expansion plan that includes whimsically designed point-of-sale displays that will be placed in retail locations from coast to coast. She is in negotiations to host a children’s cooking show, license the Wonderland Bakery® brand of toys, games and products available nationwide.
“Allyson Ames has an amazing story that will inspire other entrepreneurs to dream big, make it work and build a commanding brand,” said Hansen. “She has shared her business tips and strategies in the book to encourage and empower other entrepreneurs to create and live their dream.”
The Richest Kids in America is now available nationwide and online at www.WonderlandBakery.com
SWEET GUERILLA MARKETING
Connect on a ‘sweet emotional branding level’ with Bakery® Logo & Private Label Gifts<
In this economic climate, achieving a strong and emotional connection to your brand can equate to business survival. Founded by mother-daughter duo Sondra Ames and Allyson Ames in 2005, Wonderland Bakery® offers an array of highly customizable logo cookies, gift tins, gift baskets, cookie mailers, cake in a jar and cookie cakes. Corporate account services include managing mailing lists, direct fulfillment, specific collateral material for campaigns included in all packaging is available locally and nationwide at www.WonderlandBakery.com.
Wonderland Bakery ®will help you achieve a strong branding message in a sweet and powerful way. Their highly trained staff offers a one-stop creative destination to help you manage your business relationships, cultivate new business and brand awareness, send with your press release to the media or cultivate national accounts.
Itself an entrepreneurship with big ideas, Wonderland Bakery ® caters to a diverse business community – from small, start-up companies looking to strengthen their brand in a unique way, to corporate giants wanting to make a statement as big as they are. Just a few of Wonderland’s national clients include Allergan, American Express, Microsoft, Tesla, Saks Fifth Avenue, Macys, Broadcom, Sales Force, Dave and Busters, Apple, LA Lakers, Angels, Prudential, Nationwide Insurance, Bank of America, Orange County Bar Association, Pacific Life Insurance, Major League Baseball, Neiman Marcus and even the White House.
“To get sweet results, our business clients take advantage of our scalable, flexible corporate gifting options,” said Sondra. “Whether it’s a logo cookie or gift tin, or even a cookie cake or cake in a jar that is a special representation of your company, we work with each of our clients to create a gift package or presentation that is highly impressive yet still affordable.” Says Sondra.
WONDERLAND BAKERY® ANNOUNCES NATIONWIDE STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP WITH ERRAND SOLUTIONS CONCIERGE SERVICES
Wonderland Bakery® Products Well-Received at Allergan Pharmaceutical
Wonderland Bakery® creator of gourmet sweets and whimsical gifts announced its national strategic relationship with Errand Solutions. A rapidly growing company providing customized, on-site concierge services to more than 300 employers nationwide, Errand Solutions reaches more than 1.2 million employees working in various hospitals, corporate sites, residential communities, and hotels throughout the country.
Wonderland Bakery® launched the partnership with its beta site at Allergan, Inc., a national pharmaceutical and medical technology company based in Irvine, California. The maker of eye care solutions and medical aesthetic products such as BOTOX® Cosmetic, Allergan welcomed increased traffic at the concierge desk since the arrival of Wonderland Bakery’s products.
“We are incredibly pleased and excited to have Wonderland Bakery® on board and offer its range of unique, whimsical products to our thousands of clients,” said Marsha McVicker, CEO of Chicago-based Errand Solutions. “The Wonderland Bakery® brand energizes ours, and we anticipate a significant increase in company growth for both organizations. Vendors like Wonderland Bakery ® offering delicious desserts and uniquely whimsical gifts are helping us achieve continued success.”
Offering a wide assortment of eye-popping gift ideas from custom-decorated cookies, cookie bouquets, aprons, bake sets, bakeware, clothing dolls, books, and the animated plush Allyson Wonderland Bakery® Bear. Wonderland Bakery® is among a variety of vendors providing concierge services via Errand Solutions. These concierge services, which appeal to busy, full-time employees who want to save valuable personal time, give them the opportunity to shop and take care of errands at a single location at work.
Distinctive corporate branding ideas are another specialty of Wonderland Bakery ® through Errand Solutions, Allergan executives also have engaged Wonderland Bakery® to provide cookies, gift tins and other items displaying Allergan’s logo for special events, company functions, conferences and client gifts. Wonderland Bakery® will be providing logo and customized gifts for the additional concierge locations and businesses nationwide.
Wonderland Bakery ®is scheduled to launch approximately 150 additional locations are anticipated within the coming year. “We’ve won the hearts of families, celebrities and clients nationwide and now we are thrilled to be partnering with Errand Solutions and quickly expanding our brand throughout the country,” said Sondra Ames, co-founder of Wonderland Bakery. “
PRESIDENTIAL “SWEET’ CAMPAIGN
WONDERLAND BAKERY KEEPS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ‘SWEET”
Wonderland Bakery ® is helping to get votes with ‘good taste’ this election and there will be no chance of a recount. As the elections heat up so do the ovens at Wonderland Bakery ® where customers cast their ‘Sweet Vote’ and purchase cookies or their favorite political candidates and political party.
“We make thousands of cookies each day and when we traveled to Sacramento, California to receive the California Business of the Year Award and brought political cookies to the governor to enjoy, the political cookies caught on and our gift to the governor started a trend that we are happy to fulfill “says Allyson Ames, founder of Wonderland Bakery®.
Tasty Wonderland Bakery sugar cookies are created with state-of-the-art edible image technology and include company logos, photo images, graphic images, and marketing campaigns. Presidential Logo and political cookie orders are the hot ticket, and the Wonderland Bakery ® staff is working overtime to complete the demand….and they started keeping a ‘Sweet Presidential Poll’ with each cookie representing a vote.
“As the political and presidential cookie orders increase with weeks to the election, we thought it would be fun to keep a tally of what candidates and political party cookies are purchased. It’s a close race and all candidates
have great taste.” says Ames.
“Our Sweet Campaign will not end in November as we are ready to create cookies for the presidential inauguration dinner and happy to accept a tasty term as Sweet Ambassador to the White House in January, “adds Ames. “It’s all in ‘good taste’ as we encourage everyone to vote” says Ames.
Wonderland Political cookies and other customized cookies and gifts are available nationwide at www.WonderlandBakery.com
BUSINESS MOTHER OF THE YEAR
Wonderland Bakery® Co-founder Honored as Business Mother of the Year
Sondra Ames, a businesswoman who has devoted two decades to nurturing the cooking talents of her only child and has donated time and money to enrich the lives of women, children, literacy, animal welfare and education in her community has been named the MOMS Business Mother of the Year.
Sondra Ames, who with her daughter, Allyson, own and operate the Wonderland Bakery ® brand a favorite of families, celebrities, and anyone with a sweet tooth nationwide, will accept the honor just before Mother’s Day from the non-profit Maternal Outreach Management System (MOMS), which is devoted to helping mothers, families and community.
The United Way nominated Ames for the award, which will be presented at the MOMS eighth annual luncheon on May 11 at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim. The award recognizes Ames’ extensive involvement in philanthropic organizations, as well as her long recognized as role as a business leader, mentor and role model.
Ames is a founding member of the Women’s Philanthropy Fund of the United Way County. That group is made up of women philanthropists who each invest $10,000 or more in the Orange County community every year. Ames personally has given more than $100,000 annually through her involvement with the fund and other philanthropic contributions over the past several years.
In addition, Sondra and Allyson Ames founded Thanks a Million Cookies Foundation, through which a percentage of all profits at Wonderland Bakery ® funded and distributed to philanthropic causes. “As our success grows, so does our contributions to help make the world a sweeter place”, says Sondra.
“To be honored as a mother from this organization is one of the most beautiful gifts I have received, and one that I will share with many incredible women who have helped me over the years with a rich tapestry of kindness, compassion, mentoring and love,” said Ames, 62, a single mother who lost her own mom when she was eight years old.
That loss inspired Ames to become the mother she always wanted to have – a drive that has manifested itself in many ways, both personally and professionally.
“After losing my mother, I have strived to carry a loving remembrance of her through my actions in the world, with my own parenting, and with God’s grace,” Ames said.
Ames was instrumental in nurturing daughter Allyson’s precocious culinary skills, which started to reveal themselves when Allyson was only 5. She would sneak downstairs and begin baking before I was awake each morning.
Allyson’s culinary skills were honed during her early teens and received a “Best Young Chef in America Award’’ with a scholarship to Culinary School.
Now Allyson is living out her dream as president and co-founder of Wonderland Bakery®, a woman owned business, specializing in delicious desserts and whimsical products has grown to a national brand and favorites of families, celebrities, and anyone with a sweet tooth. Allyson is set for next level growth expanding beyond baking with expansion; licensing ventures; merchandising program and the development of various entertainment properties including an animated series and TV show. For more information, please visit www.wonderlandbakery.com
NAWBO NATIONAL LICENCING AWARD
Best Corporate Gifts from the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO)
Wonderland Bakery® was one of only four companies selected nationwide to provide its own version of NAWBO-branded merchandise or NAWBOgear – to members and NAWBO chapters throughout the country via the NAWBO website.
The National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) held a contest offering NAWBO members across the country a chance to create their own NAWBO merchandise and if selected, increase national exposure of their own products. NAWBO has more than 12,000 members and 90 chapters nationwide.
Wonderland Bakery’s NAWBO-branded products are available on the NAWBO website or the Wonderland Bakery website for online ordering as well as other customized logo and corporate products for nationwide shipping.
“As a 100% woman-owned, mother-daughter business, we are thrilled to be selected as a NAWBO Merchandise Contest winner to offer our delicious products nationally,” said Sondra Ames.
Wonderland Bakery® is known for its corporate gifting relationships with national companies such as Allergan, Pacific Life, Tesla, Bank of America, Sales Force, Saks Fifth Avenue, Macys, Nationwide Insurance, Northern Trust, Microsoft, Dave and Busters and more. Scalable corporate gifting options can be customized, personalized, and packaged to display any company logo, photo, graphic image, product or national campaign for a sweet and memorable gift.
For more information on ordering customized logo corporate gifts, please visit: WonderlandBakery.com
ALLYSON’S WONDERLAND BAKERY ® BEAR BY GUND
Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery ® Bear by Gund topping wish lists nationwide
Love, passion and state-of-the-art technology create the recipe for plush, animated bear – the ‘must have’ gift for kids everywhere.
Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery ® collection of products staring the enchanted, animated Allyson Wonderland Bakery ® Bear by GUND – is now available through the country online at www.Wonderland Bakery.com
Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery ® collection features not only the limited edition animated plush bear, which is a co-labor of love by Wonderland Bakery ® and GUND ®, it also includes bake sets, tea sets, bakeware, aprons, clothing, books, plush, dolls, toys manufactured and licensed by Wonderland Bakery ® to delight the young as well as those young at heart.
Allyson’ Wonderland Bakery® Bear is an adorable, animated talking bear that tells the sweet and inspiring story of Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery ®. The Allyson Wonderland Bakery® Bear marks the first animated bear partnership from GUND, a 128-year-old legend in the plush toy industry. The bear which comes tucked in a collectible, easy to carry, peak-a-boo castle tote includes GUND trademark plush quality as well as state-of-the-art technology – creating a collectible bear that is both cuddly and high-tech.
“All of us at GUND are very pleased to embark on this journey with Wonderland Bakery ®,” added Branch. “As a company that takes branding seriously, our collaboration with Wonderland Bakery ® is a perfect fit.” According to the American Brands Council, GUND is among the top 50 most recognized brands in the United States.
Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery ® Bear was inspired by the real-life blond-haired, blue-eyed Allyson Ames, who was named after the Lewis Carroll story Alice in Wonderland, and created the Wonderland Bakery ® brand in 2005 with her mother, Sondra.
“Allyson Wonderland Bakery® Bear is part of our Wonderland Bakery ® collection of products – children and collectors who have met our animated bear have already added her to their wish lists,” said Sondra Ames, co-founder of Wonderland Bakery. “We are pleased to offer our exclusive collection nationally through select retailers nationwide and our Wonderland Bakery website.
Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery® Bear and the read-a-long book, Wonderlicious, The Wonderland Bakery ®Adventure are available nationwide at www.WonderlandBakery.com
WONDERLICIOUS STORYBOOK DEBUTS WITH THE WONDERLAND BAKERY® ANIMATED SERIES
Deliciously illustrated, the true story of the real-life Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery
Wonderlicious, the beautifully illustrated storybook of a real-life little girl who followed her love, passion and dream of baking is available just in time for in time for the holidays. The book is a read-along accompaniment
to Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery ® Bear by Gund, featuring state-of-the-art animated technology in a delightfully plush bear that tells the story written in the book with a squeeze of the paw.
The book is an inspiring narrative of Chef Allyson Ames’ beginning as a young “culinary prodigy “and her success as co-founder, Wonderland Bakery®, as she is building a billion-dollar brand.
Illustrated by award-winning artist David Anderson, Wonderlicious: The Enchanting and Delicious Wonderland Bakery ® Adventure is the colorful and captivating adventure of Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery ® and a cast of original characters that come to life in the full-size storybook.
“This enchanting storybook will take children and those young at heart on a delightfully delicious adventure,” said Sondra Ames, co-author and co founder of Wonderland Bakery. “With every turn of the page, vibrant characters and desserts will captivate readers and make them feel like they are really in Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery® with all her whimsical friends. creating enchanting and fantasy adventures around baking and food creativity. Each story helps to inspire with a wish and a whisk, life lessons about friendship, sharing, diversity, potential and helping to inspire each child’s dream to help make the world a sweeter place for everyone” says Ames.
Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery® Bear and the read-a-long book, Wonderlicious, The Wonderland Bakery ®Adventure are available nationwide at www.WonderlandBakery.com
About Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery ® and Wonderland Bakery ®Lifestyle Brands:
Wonderland Bakery creates custom-baked treats for business occasion, including logo cookies and gift tins for personalized corporate gifts. Wonderland Bakery Lifestyle Brands was founded in 2005 by Allyson Ames specializing in delicious desserts and whimsical products has grown to a national brand and favorites of families, celebrities, and anyone with a sweet tooth. Allyson is set for next level growth expanding beyond baking with expansion;
licensing ventures; merchandising program and the development of various entertainment properties including an animated series and TV show. For more information, please visit www.WonderlandBakery.com
NAWBO TO NAME ALLYSON AMES ENTREPRENEUR AWARD
15th Annual Remarkable Women Awards
Having transformed their dreams and talents into thriving, successful businesses, three extraordinary women will be honored at the 15th Annual Remarkable Women Awards event. Reflecting upon the theme “Inspiration, Courage and Hope,” NAWBO with more than 12,000 members and 90 chapters nationwide. will pay tribute to Allyson Ames, Kathy Gardarian and Angela Cortright.
“Kathy, Angela and Allyson embody the mission of NAWBO. We can learn a lot from these outstanding women who have evolved their passions into profitable business opportunities while leveraging their leadership positions to elevate a number of charitable, educational and community-based organizations,” said NAWBO President Kathy Dawson. They exhibit a passion for what they do and can be seen as effective leaders and role models for their employees, clients and the community.”
A Passion for Creating Happiness for Others
Few people get to pursue their childhood passions. But Allyson Ames is one of those rare individuals who brought a little girl’s dream to life. Allyson started cooking at the age of 5, and by the time she was 17, had been named Best Young Chef in America. Steeped in the imagery of beloved fairy tales, and drawing on her artistry in the kitchen, Allyson combined her two passions and created a line of delectable cookies, desserts and products in a setting that would entice all the senses. While Allyson concocted exquisite confections, her mother, Sondra, added business acumen and marketing prowess. Since founding, Wonderland Bakery ® in 2005, a woman owned business, has experienced explosive growth and developed a nationwide presence. Allyson Ames and Wonderland Bakery ® have received many accolades in her career including California Business of the Year, she was named one of the top
10 personal brands in by Entrepreneur Magazine and honored as the Ernst & Young National Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program.
For a young woman, these are amazing achievements nurtured by her seemingly unending stream of ideas of desserts and products that inspire your imagination and taste buds specializing has grown to a national brand and favorites of families, celebrities, and anyone with a sweet tooth. Allyson is focused on next level growth expanding beyond baking with licensing ventures; merchandising program and the development of various entertainment properties including an animated series and TV show.
About Allyson’s Wonderland Bakery ® and Wonderland Bakery ®Lifestyle Brands:
Wonderland Bakery ® and Wonderland Bakery® Lifestyle Brands was founded in 2005 by Allyson Ames, a woman owned business, specializing in desserts and products that inspire your taste buds and imagination and has grown to a national brand and favorites of families, celebrities, and anyone with a sweet tooth. Wonderland is set for next level growth expanding beyond baking with expansion; licensing ventures; merchandising program and the development of various entertainment properties including an animated series and TV show. For more information, please visit www.WonderlandBakery.com