“Where can I get Boston cream pie?” is the question Tim Michaud, a driver and guide for CityView Trolley Tours in Boston, is continually asked. “Tourists think it’s a major food group for Bostonians,” he says. He’s held the job for 15 years. The persistent question inspired the Quincy resident and his wife, Heidi, two years ago to start a side business, Boston Cream Pie Company. They sell Boston cream pies from a trike affixed with a cooler painted purple and pink. The couple, both 39, named the contraption Oregon, where it was built. They offer a half-dozen delicious, hefty varieties of the specialty in 4-inch rounds weighing 1 to 1¼ pounds ($5 to $6), which Heidi bakes at CommonWealth Kitchen in Dorchester. Packed in a clear container, her classic version has two layers of golden pound cake filled with a dense, pudding-like vanilla cream, the cake covered with melted chocolate oozing down its sides. One selection has sizable chunks of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups piled high on top; another has hunks of Heath bars. One choice is smothered with pieces of Oreos. You can find the trike every day in front of Boston Marriott Long Wharf. From May through October, the company will sell the desserts from a second trike, Rex (named for “Boomtown” host Rex Trailer), on Saturdays at Greenway Open Market on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, and on Sundays at SoWa Boston in the South End. “We’re selling a little bit of Boston,” says Tim Michaud. Boston Cream Pie Company, www.eatbcpc.com .

Ann Trieger Kurland can be reached at atrieger@comcast.net.