How to grab An Honest Pie in Sacramento before Auburn food truck’s owner calls it quits
An Honest Pie, an Auburn-based mobile bakery that’s slung buttermilk and cheesecake across the greater Sacramento area for the better part of a decade, announced this week on social media that it will close down operations at the end of January.
Owner Brenda Janssen, who started the business in 2012, said in a Facebook post that she will attempt to sell the business and its “PieMobile,” a quaint trailer that has taken its desserts from town to town with a de facto home base outside Auburn’s Home Depot store, to a new owner.
“If the business in its entirety does not sell, then I intend to sell off my trailer and food truck. ... You can then create your own delicious products,” Janssen wrote.
An Honest Pie – best known for its buttermilk pies, which were recognized in 2016 by Sactown Magazine and in 2017 by the Union newspaper in Grass Valley – posted its schedule for the rest of January in the form of Facebook events. The trailer will visit Sacramento multiple times, also stopping in the Rancho Cordova and Roseville areas.
In addition to 10 days outside the Auburn hardware store, An Honest Pie will be available: Friday morning at 2495 Natomas Park Drive in Sacramento; Wednesday, Jan 8, at 8950 Cal Center Drive, just south of Highway 50 near Watt Avenue; Jan. 10 at 3180 Kilgore Road in Rancho Cordova; Jan. 22 in front of the Sutter Health corporate office at 2200 River Plaza Drive, along the Garden Highway in Sacramento; Jan. 23 at 10391 Peter A. McCuen Blvd. in Mather; Jan. 28 on Capitol Mall in Sacramento; and Jan. 30 at 3010 Lava Ridge Court in Roseville.
“I have had this sweet little business for the past 7+ years,” Janssen wrote on Facebook. “It was created by my hands, my family’s hands and many many dear friends.”
