About Us
Our Story
and why we’re perfectly placed to help you
Allez! Bakes was created by Claire, who was inspired by two things. Firstly, Claire loves to bake cakes and wanted to spend more of her time curating and producing delicious creations. When running our coffee shop, the combination of a tiny kitchen and a popular menu meant that much of our baking had to be done outside of opening hours. As our hours expanded this led to less kitchen availability for creating all of our cakes in house. We found it hard to find a supplier who could deliver cakes that looked and tasted home-baked, whilst also offering high quality, decent portions, and peace of mind that comes with being fully compliant with all legislation, from allergens to labelling.
Claire and her partner, Mark, were devastated when they lost the lease for their coffee shop, Café Allez! Belvoir Castle, after 3 years of delighting customers regular and new. But they also believe that things sometimes happen for a reason: and sure enough, this became the catalyst to launch Allez! Bakes.
Our Founders
baking success into every slice
Meet Claire
The founder of Allez! Bakes and also a co-founder and director of Café Allez!, which continues as a premium mobile coffee shop. Claire’s earlier career was mainly in Finance roles, latterly as FD for a chain of school academies.
She’s had a passion for baking since her mother taught her and her sister to bake at a young age. For Claire, producing cakes that had customers coming back for more was always a highlight of the business, and she is now genuinely excited at the prospect of focusing on baking (almost!) full time. Despite her entrepreneurial credentials, Claire’s friends will tell you that she’s also naturally risk-averse and this is a driver for her in ensuring total familiarity and compliance with all aspects of food safety and legislation.
Meet Mark
As Claire’s partner, Mark is on hand to assist with project management, sales and marketing, whilst helping to ensure that Café Allez! continues its mission to become the best mobile coffee shop in the business.
Why Frozen?
fresher for your customers (and easier for you)
When we bake our cakes, we freeze them shortly afterwards to lock in the freshness and the flavours. In this way, they are also better able to travel safely to you, after which you can defrost them and portion them whenever is convenient to meet your customer demand.
Does Allez! Bakes Offer Vegan, or Gluten Free Cakes?
Vegan cakes are important to us, as they are to many of our customers, and we often start the recipe formulation process with: ‘could we make this delicious AND vegan’? Look for the VE logo when browsing our cakes!
With regret, we can’t offer Gluten Free cakes at this time due to space and production process constraints.