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 over the last year). Please help us by wearing a mask inside. Thank you. More info about the reopening of our two stores is 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.
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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.
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Behold the decadence: 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.
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Both of our stores are now fully open inside!
See info below about some new procedures.
~ Things to know about our reopening ~
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.
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.
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.
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. Many of our other favorites will return as the summer continues. Let us know if you have suggestions. 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.
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.
Store hours: We’ll stick with opening at 8 am at both stores for awhile. 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 (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. Please choose a 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.
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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.
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We’re adding a new flavor to our ice cream line-up: all-American vanilla ice cream from Moo Thru, our favorite local family-run dairy. Our new variety is made with our own chocolate chip cookies mixed in to their vanilla ice cream. We now have 11 flavors with our Red Truck cake chunks or our granola mixed in, from peppermint ice cream with our triple-chocolate cake mixed in, to strawberry ice cream with chunks of our Meyer lemon cake added.
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Our Applejack Butter Pecan Cake is new and already featured in The New York Times.
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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.
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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?
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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.
What's in season
We fell in love with Lexington, Kentucky, and were inspired to make our Lexington bourbon cake with fresh ginger. It’s gorgeous and delicious, and we’ll ship this beauty anywhere in the United States here.
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Send our famous double-chocolate moonshine cake to family and friends across the country; it was featured on the Today Show as one of Bon Appetit magazine’s favorite mail-order foods. See our Today Show segment here.
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Meet Dwight McNeill, AIA, the award-winning residential
architect who designed both of our bakeries. See his projects throughout Virginia, including Rapphannock County and the Shenandoah Valley.
We ship fresh baked goods nationwide. Let us do the work.
Order now and choose your later delivery date
Fresh out of the oven, into a box and out the door—it doesn’t get any easier than that. All you need to do is decide what you’d like to send and we’ll take care of everything (for larger corporate orders, send us an email). Order here and pick any later date you'd like the gift to arrive. Our most popular items:
Caramel pecan cake (as seen in Garden & Gun)
Kentucky bourbon pecan pie with chocolate
Shenandoah apple cake with maple frosting
Lexington bourbon cake with fresh ginger
Almond cake with amaretto (gluten-free)
Flourless chocolate truffle cake (gluten-free)
Double-chocolate moonshine cake
and lots more. See everything here.
Please allow at least one extra day for arrival due to possible UPS delivery delays due to increased demand and/or weather issues. We are unable to offer a refund for any delays.
What they're saying
Raise a mug to my former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, whom we honor with our new bold & robust “Bulldog Edition” coffee named after the early morning edition of the paper. Each time we order a new batch of this blend, we make a contribution to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Order yours here.
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“Red Truck Bakery is one of our ‘Old Favorites—Ten Timeless Southern Shops.’ The cakes are all fantastic and they're all made with love at this rural Virginia landmark.”
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You’ll love our new Caramel Pecan Cake, a Bundt cake version of our story on the cover of Garden & Gun magazine. We'll ship it here, or call our store to reserve for pick up.
{ TASTY IDEAS TO SEND YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY NATIONWIDE }
We ship many items, including these favorites. See the complete list on our ship online page.
