Red Truck Rural Bakery | Marshall & Warrenton, VA

Please allow an additional day for delivery when shipping. If your order is needed on a Friday or Saturday, choose a Thursday arrival date. With shipping delays now more frequent, we can’t stress this enough.

How to order for the holidays

To ship our cakes anywhere in the United States, visit redtruckbakery.goldbelly.com. Order early and please plan for an early December delivery date. Do not schedule a Friday delivery, due to the possibility of shipping delays. More info below.

To order for pick up at our Marshall, Virginia, store

1) For same-day pickup in Marshall (ordering anytime after 7 pm the night before), visit pickup.redtruckbakery.com. Remember that you are ordering for a pickup that day.

2) For Thanksgiving orders, use your mobile device/cell phone and log on to http://locasaur.com/redtruckmarshall/

Once we’re through with Thanksgiving, we’ll quickly change over to Christmas ordering at http://locasaur.com/redtruckmarshall/ (remember that you’ll need to do this via a mobile phone)

To order for pick up at our Warrenton, Virginia, store

1) For pickup in Warrenton, use your mobile device/cell phone and log on to http://locasaur.com/redtruckwarrenton/

2) For Thanksgiving orders, use your mobile device/cell phone and log on to http://locasaur.com/redtruckwarrenton/ and select Thanksgiving Week ordering

Once we’re through with Thanksgiving, we’ll quickly change over to Christmas ordering at http://locasaur.com/redtruckwarrenton/ (remember that you’ll need to do this via a mobile phone)

You can’t fence us in: With Main Street construction underway (utility lines are going underground and new brick sidewalks being installed), we have this gorgeous new fence in front of the store. Rest assured that our front door is open for you, and we have plenty of parking in our rear parking lot—just down our driveway at the right side of our building. See you soon for fall baking, including apple cakes, pumpkin doughnuts, caramel cakes, and apple pies galore.

Welcome to Autumn! Our Shenandoah Apple Cakes are back in the store and available for shipping through the end of the year, along with our year-round Caramel Pecan Cakes and our Applejack Butter Pecan Cakes with local apple brandy from our pals at Catoctin Creek Distillery. We’re also bringing back our fall pies, cranberry tea breads, and apple doughnuts. Stay up-to-date with ordering deadlines, new items, and special giveaways ~ sign up here for details and contest rules.

We are open and require a mask in the store. We’re trying very hard to keep our two retail stores open to customers (it was lonely without you inside the store over the last year). Please help us by wearing a mask inside. If you prefer not to come in, order same-day and pick up out back via pickup.redtruckbakery.com (details below).

Get info about our free cake drawings (you just missed free Meyer lemon cakes and a Shenandoah apple cake giveaway), new items from our kitchen, the upcoming release of our second cookbook, specials, and holiday ordering deadlines. SIGN UP HERE

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Ordering now for holiday shipping

Order now and lock in your December shipping date

(see our note below about corporate orders)

The increased shipping demand requires planning ahead

We’re getting queries from customers about shipping for the holidays, and we’re eager to help you plan to get your baked goods delivered on time. (If you’re wondering about pickup orders at our two stores, no need to fret. We’ll start taking local pickup orders in October). As we know from last year, holiday shipping during a pandemic overwhelmed delivery carriers, with UPS and FedEx bogged down with extreme numbers of packages in December. We saw some delays that we’ll help you avoid this year. Hear us out—we want you to get our baked goods, sent fresh from the oven, in a timely manner:

1) Place your orders early (like, now). You can place your orders now and still choose a date in December for delivery.* Our rural bakery prizes quality over quantity, and although our small staff can handle baking and shipping thousands of items, we will need to stop accepting any new orders once we hit capacity. And take note: that happened last year in the very first week of December.

* We strongly suggest having your orders arrive at their destination in early December to avoid any later unforeseen ingredient shortages and delivery delays. Please avoid delivery the week of Christmas; we don’t want UPS delays due to overwhelming shipping demand and winter weather delaying your order. Aim for an early December delivery. Everything freezes well.

2) Plan ahead to avoid a delay. If you need your items on a Friday or over a weekend for a holiday party or special occasion, do NOT choose a Friday as your delivery date. Instead, choose a Wednesday or Thursday as a cushion (and we encourage selecting UPS Second Day Air, since UPS Ground tends to take at least one extra delivery day). Last year we saw the occasional delivery delay, so some Friday orders were delivered the following Monday. We have no control over that. You can avoid it by choosing a delivery date earlier in the week. We are unable to offer any refunds due to any UPS or weather delays. Order now for December delivery.

3) We have opened up ordering for our Havana Fruitcake and Almond Stollen. We will start shipping these on Tuesday, November 30, and into December on whatever day you choose. We are already making our Havana fruitcakes and they will be aging in rum for at least two months, so needless to say, numbers are therefore finite and we won’t be able to bake and age more fruitcakes in December. Order now for December delivery.

4) We have new unique items that are great for winter, including our Applejack Butter Pecan Cake with local apple brandy from Catoctin Creek up the road. We’re also plenty proud of our new Hoodoo Cake, a dark chocolate and chicory Bundt cake made with Cathead Distillery’s Hoodoo chicory liqueur. Other good choices for holiday gifts: Lexington Bourbon Cake, Alma Hackney’s Rum Cake, Guinness Stout Irish Chocolate Cake (back for December), our Orange Cake, and our gluten-free Almond Cake with local amaretto from Mt. Defiance in Middleburg, Virginia. Everything that we ship nationwide is shown right here. Order now for December delivery.

5) We’re known for our pies and create many varieties year-round for our two Virginia stores, but we can ship only the sturdiest pies that will survive transit, including our Authentic Mincemeat Pie (now made with imported British vegetarian suet—you won’t know the difference, and it keeps our vegetarian friends happy), our Kentucky Bourbon Pecan Pie, our new Virginia Peanut Pie, and our Traditional Pecan Pie. Order now for December delivery.

6) We love larger corporate orders, and this year we need to know about them early. We most likely will be unable to assist with new corporate order inquiries in December. Email me before November 1 at Brian@RedTruckBakery.com and we’ll talk.

Behold the decadence: Just in time for Halloween, we’re introducing our Hoodoo Chocolate Cake, with chicory liqueur from our friends at Cathead Distillery in Jackson, Mississippi. Order now for shipping anywhere in the United States, or pickup at our two Virginia stores starting this weekend.

Both of our stores are now fully open inside!

See info below about some new procedures.

~ Things to know about our reopening ~

Masks: Masks are required, whether or not you are vaccinated. Our staff continues to wear masks, and we ask that you do, also. Thank you.

Seating: We will have limited seating inside both stores for the time being. Both stores have outdoor seating. Now that we are fully open inside, we have closed our walk-up side window. Restrooms are available again.

No pets are allowed in the stores: Due to health department regulations, we can only allow inside service animals specifically trained to aid a person with a disability. We make food here; thanks for understanding. Pets are happily allowed in our outside dining areas.

Occupancy: We won’t limit the number of customers in the store unless things get crowded. At that point, we may ask you to wait just a bit until things calm down. Now that we are fully opened inside, we have closed our side window.

Credit cards, not cash: We’d prefer to continue our policy of accepting credit and debit cards (we now have Apple Pay), and not cash. We’ll help you if you’re caught without plastic; please know that we are not currently carrying change.

Updated offerings: We’re bringing back meatloaf and beetloaf sandwiches, you’ll be happy to hear, along with our farmhouse muffins with sausage and jalapeños. Also, you’ll enjoy seeing a larger freezer case at our Marshall store, full of Moo Thru ice cream with our cake mix-ins, and frozen lasagna and frozen chicken pot pies ready to bake at home. We’ll continue to have ice cream in Warrenton, too.

Store hours: We’ll stick with opening at 8 am at both stores for now. The Marshall store will be open every day from 8 am to 5 pm; now that we are fully opened inside, we have closed our side window. The Warrenton store will be open from 8 am to 4 pm Monday through Saturday, and is closed on Sundays.

We love pre-orders: We are encouraging pre-ordering to ensure you get what you want, even if you’re arriving later in the day—or you can just come on in and take your chances, choosing from what’s still available. Please place same-day pre-orders not by phone but by visiting our online ordering sites: For Marshall, our pickup.redtruckbakery.com site will continue for same-day ordering—just pick up your order inside the store without standing in line (where you can grab drinks, cookies, pastries, and much more). In Warrenton, continue to use Locasaur via your mobile phone at https://locasaur.com/redtruckwarrenton. For any future orders, just call the appropriate store.

Shipping nationwide: We bake a large list of items. Visit redtruckbakery.com for the complete selection of baked goods that we are able to safely ship (fruit pies don't ship well). Please allow at least one extra day for arrival, allowing for any possible UPS delivery delays due to increased demand and/or weather issues. We are unable to offer any refunds due to any UPS or weather delays. Do not choose Friday as a delivery day; please choose a Wednesday or Thursday as the delivery day if the item is needed for a Friday or a weekend, just in case there is a UPS delay.

Our main location in Marshall: 8368 W. Main Street, Marshall VA, 540-364-2253. Open every day from 8 am to 5 pm.

Our smaller Warrenton store: 22 Waterloo Street, Warrenton VA, 540-347-2224. Open Monday through Saturday 8 am to 4 pm. Closed Sundays.

It’s wondrous to read these words in print: “The South’s Best Bakeries.” Loafing on my grandmother’s sofa in North Carolina fifty years ago, I was captivated by Southern Living—a newly-launched publication we didn’t see in California. I’m sure it helped inspired me to eventually open a rural bakery, and it’s thanks to my hard-working team and our loyal customers that these accolades brought it full circle.

Our Applejack Butter Pecan Cake is new and already featured in The New York Times.

Introducing our Applejack Butter Pecan Cake, made with our homemade caramel and apple brandy from Catoctin Creek Distillery just up the road

WE SHIP ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES ~ ORDER YOURS HERE

We offer two types of gift cards (please note that they are not interchangeble)

1) To purchase an e-gift card for use for nationwide shipping only (not for redemption in our stores), click here. We’ll quickly email it to you or your recipient.

2) To purchase a reloadable gift card to be used in person at our two Virginia stores only (not for redemption for online shipping orders), simply call our bakery.

We’re a rural bakery born in a farmhouse in the Virginia Piedmont hunt country 50 miles west of Washington, D.C., and we’re named after the truck we bought from fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger. We ship thousands of items nationwide each year: Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine says we’re one of their favorite food sites, Travel + Leisure says we’re one of the best small-town bakeries in America and Condé Nast Traveler named us one of “America’s 13 Sweetest Bakery Destinations.” Even former President Obama has saluted our bakery's story and our pies. Our favorite accolades are from our customers—come see for yourself. Did we mention our moonshine cakes with hooch from the next county?

We ship nationwide from our little rural Virginia bakery. When you order online for shipping Red Truck baked goods nationwide, you'll be redirected to Goldbelly. which simply handles the processing of our orders (rest assured that everything is baked—and shipped—by us right here in Marshall, Virginia). If you have any problems ordering, please contact us via email at Brian@RedTruckBakery.com. Please allow at least one extra day for arrival, allowing for any possible UPS delivery delays due to increased demand and/or weather issues. We are unable to offer any refunds due to any UPS or weather delays. Send us a note here.

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