The Gingerbread Construction Co
- Price Range: $$
- Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
- Parking: Private Lot
- Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
17 Reviews for The Gingerbread Construction Co
Gingerbread, ok whatever, thats cool guys.
BUT THE EFFIN MUFFINS. They are more like cupcakes but if they want to call them muffins, I will not argue in any way, shape, or form because I am so in love with whatever they are. Not only are they the most delicious in the world, but they are relatively cheap for their ridiculous size.
I bow down.
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Dian C. mentioned how good the muffins here are recently in passing so I figured I would see if they lived up to the hype. They have so many flavors, it's overwhelming. I settled on two chocolate raspberry, one strawberry short cake and one banana and walnut. I refrigerated them for a few hours before boarding a flight back to DC. Much to my relief, they stayed intact.
The only thing muffin-like about the strawberry short cake muffin is the shape. The muffin itself is yellow cake. They cut off the top, fill it in with strawberries and whipped cream and put the top back on. Unbelievably good. The cake is so light and fluffy. Not quite a cupcake but not quite a muffin. Same idea for the chocolate raspberry muffin - chocolate cake stuffed with raspberries and whipped cream. The cake was incredible. I'm so bringing more back from my next trip.
The banana walnut was the only traditional muffin. It was not nearly as good as the ones with whipped cream. Stick with the "dessert" muffins.
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This place is un-effing-believable! I'm so happy/sad that this place is not in Boston. If it was in Boston, I'd be 30 pounds heavier, but I certainly don't get there enough. I've had so many of their "muffins", but my favorites are the chocolate-raspberry, strawberry shortcake, and carrot cake. Craving one now... ahhhhhhh.
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If I was closer to TGCC, I would be muffin-toppin' out of my jeans.
After reading Cara P's ROTD, I had to try these muffins. These treats have a killer combination of tasty, fresh, not TOO sweet, and affordable. I got 6 of them for me and my coworkers for 10 bucks. Flavors I tried were Blueberry, Apple, Strawberry Shortcake, Chocolate Raspberry, Lemon Poppyseed, Gingerbread.
There was not one of them that I didn't like. I tried at least a quarter of each. The most impressive was probably the strawberry shortcake. A light fluffy almost angel food cake muffin with real strawberries and a light cream.
If you can make the trek out to Winchester or Wakefield, pick me up a muffin.
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Remember that episode of Seinfeld when Elaine couldn't get rid of the Muffin stumps?? She should have done what The Gingerbread Construction Co. does.......
Their muffins are large, not too expensive and they have a great variety....some have the top cap sliced off, than they stuff or layer the stump with filling and slap the cap back on. YUM!.. you can enjoy fillings like Bavarian cream, strawberries and blueberries.......
Some muffins only have the tops frosted and some are just good ol' fashioned muffins - in tact with no filling....my favorite standard muffin is their Blueberry (It has fresh berries from Maine)
My other favorite:
BOSTON KREME MUFFIN!!
For only a $1.75, you can buy a HUGE Hand filled muffin - the inside is filled with Bavarian Cream and the outside is frosted with Chocolate cream icing .
They also have gingerbread houses (for a variety of holidays), cookies, and muffin loaves
The only problem, is they close early.
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I expected to see Doozers lugging around sugar candy cross beams, smearing marshmallow spackle, and wasting Doozer taxpayer money. And I did!**
We wanted muffins for breakfast and settled for a late lunch. The GCC (we're tight like that) is tucked away amidst neighborhood swingsets and community tricycles. Someone give me a pitchfork so I can... pose for American Gothic! Savages.
Let's cut right to it. The muffins are out of this freaking world. But I guess you can mold butter flavored Crisco and sugar in to any shape and it would be just as amazing. I kid, I kid. Caloric concerns aside, these hefty beauties come in a glorious rainbow of chocolates, fruits, nuts, buttercreams and, of course, gingerbreads.
We opted for the mod quad: Boston Cream, Strawberry Shortcake, Banana Cream and Chocolate Dreme (sic). For $6.69, all were stuffed to the gills with namesake innards and required a little jaw manipulation to get your lips around.
Jeffrey and Daniel, calm down.
The frozen strawberries caught me offguard and sent my bottom teeth in to toxic shock (!) but otherwise, the muffdiving was a cavity-causing success. All were delicious with one reigning supreme: the Chocolate Dreme (sic, again.)
I wouldn't call myself a chocoholic by any stretch, so don't think the decision came from the natural cocoa endorphin rush. It came from the massive load I blew after first biting this thing. Hi Mom!
The girl pulled a fast one and grabbed a corn muffin for another day. For me for another day. FOR NOBODY ELSE for another day. Toasted the beast with eggs last night and it assaulted my throat with sweet creamy corny love.
Seriously guys, calm down.
This little bakery that could blasted hyped expectations and truly delivered. Sad that a snack solicits such sexual connotation. Gingerbread ladies, time to make your gumdrop.
Seacrest, out.
** Open the drink cooler, tilt Nantucket Nectar Orange Mango forward, spin Arizona Green Tea with Ginseng and Honey. Spiral staircase will appear. Descend.
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When people refer to things they love, they say its like a slice of Heaven.
but I say, these muffins can only be a Hell construct.
Life. changing. Just stop reading and go right now.
I am a big muffin buff, and am always on the prowl for the perfect muffin.
It has been found.
This place had been recommended to be by a colleague who swears by it, and it is worth the trek in all its non T-accessibility.
Who would have though such an unassuming little house on the side of the road would house such wonderment.
You enter the store and are confronted by illuminated cases filled with the most decadent muffins you have ever laid eyes on.
The menu? Simple. MUFFINS. pick your poison.
I was enthralled with the sheer variety of this breakfast staple. Every flavor. everything fresh. everything in stock.
Each muffin has a part of its top sliced off which is then filled with the stuff little boys' wet dreams are made of. And I'm not talking Kathy Ireland.
I'm talking...chocolate buttercream, whipped cream, custards, berries, etc etc.
None of the muffins are labelled, but you are compelled to point as opposed to choose from the menu because you just need to know..
"whats that one? oh. ok...and what about that?....oh and that? and the one below it? and the row next to it?"
-squirts windex-
-wipes fingerprints off case-
We needed to try an assortment, there is no conceivable way you can choose just one. you'd hurt all the other ones feelings!
So- we got a box with strawberry shortcake, chocolate dream, banana cream, boston cream, and a corn muffin for the southern gent.
Plan of attack? A bite of each. just a bite.
First-chocolate dream. This muffin set the bar way too high. My TMJ clicked as I tried to devour an entire bite of the muffin with appropriate top/bottom ratios. Disaster zone. I walked away from that bit looking like I had been pied by Mark Summers.
EMERGENCY NAPKIN DASH.
Deux. The banana cream muffin-light and airy with actual banana slices inside. Delicious under normal circumstances, but chocolate had my heart.
Strawberry shortcake-he took an aggressive bite into this muffin. bad.idea. Frozen strawberries were hidden inside and this made the muffin a bit difficult to eat. I would have preferred fresh berries, but cryogenics aside, it was delish.
The boston cream muffin-vanilla base, custard inside, chocolate frosting up top. This was definitely my second favorite. The frosting as well as the custard were really great and blent together nicely in this baked good.
But back to the chocolate dream. Beasted. We tore into that so hard it felt like we needed to smoke a cigarette afterwards. yes, it was that good.
Other items worth mentioning, we tried a chocolate chip cookie that was warm and dripped gooey chocolate strands upon tearing. Also-not to be missed.
I guess their forte is gingerbread (obv) if you are into that sort of thing...NANA. but go for the muffins. Your wet dreams(and mine) will thank you.
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I'm not always the biggest fan of the "muffin." I usually eat the bottom first and truly only enjoy the top. (does anyone else find it strange that while the muffin top of food is often held in the highest regard, when it comes to fashion, muffin tops are looked down upon??)
Dearest Gingerbread, you will sway the masses away from the cupcake and show them the way that are your muffins. Each muffin baked to perfection so as to leave that crispy apron that circumvents your perfectly formed, slightly crisp muffin bottom. Oh the bottom of the muffin so often overlooked and left to be the lesser part of the muffin.
Your flavors are a cornucopia of deliciousness ranging from the traditional like blueberry and orange cranberry to the interesting like lemon to the playful like chocolate, gingerbread or carrot cake. Are you a cupcake fan that needs your frosting fix? No need to fear. Some of these muffin tops aren't frost, but instead, the very tip of this muffin is sheered off, the top, injected with the appropriate confection. The top is then placed back to leave the muffin appropriately filled and topped.
Gingerbread, you have swayed me. I am now a proponent of muffins, but no ordinary muffins...your muffins.
Your namesake muffin made me crave a hot cup of coffee, my couch, a blanket and either my book or a sappy movie, Love Actually, perhaps. Unfortunately I was in a meeting, needed to pay attention and had to return to work soon after.
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MUFFINS! Despite the price per muffin, these little guys are delicious! Each individual muffin has it's top carefully sliced off and is paired with it's soul mate ..I mean filling. For example, one of my favorites: the chocolate raspberry muffin...filled with fresh raspberries and topped with whipped creme, chocolate shavings and drizzled with chocolate! A few other favorites of mine include banana creme (YUM), lemon poppyseed, Boston kreme, and carrot cake muffin. As you can see I love them all...even the plain ones such as corn and bran..Yes, I enjoy a bran muffin every so often!
My point is, if you want something different to have for breakfast or even as dessert with coffee, the Gingerbread Construction Co. has what you need. The muffins make great gifts when visiting friends or relatives and always seem to put a smile on their recipient's faces! Also, during the holiday season, they have freshly made gingerbread houses that are fantastically put together.
Try it out! :)
This place is defintely worth the drive. The muffin tops are sliced off, and filled with goodies like Strawberries and Whipped Cream. The carrot cake muffin is to die for, with a great Cream Cheese Frosting.
Not all of the muffins have Cream Cheese frosting. Some are just plain. I think a six pack of muffins is $9.99. I wouldn't call that overpriced.
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I'm giving them 3 stars for their gingerbread muffins alone. Those are definitely my only reason for going back.
Their banana cream muffin left a LOT to be desired. I love banana-anything and was really disappointed. I really didn't like the consistency of the banana 'cream' which was like a very light whipped cream, and the fresh bananas inside the muffin were under-ripe and had oxidized. yuck!
Also, muffins are now $1.70 a piece which is just a little bit steep in my opinion.
Four Words - Awesome Awesome and Wickid Awesome! The GCCO is one of the best kept secrets in Winchester! I live down the street from this place and it is really hard to stay away. I always am tempted to go have a muffin, or two , or three! For about $4 I could get 2 maybe 3 muffins! The staff is great and the muffins are huge and tasty! Great place to take the kids too! Wide variety. The only thing I wish they'd do is label their muffin counter so you know which one is which. Other than that it gets six stars...:)
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I really believe this place is overly rated by those who has been going there forever.
When we first moved to Winchester this was the only place everyone was asking us if we have tried it yet.
Well the first time we went there, store was full of big flies, the ones with shinny butts :-D
Fly would keep landing on a muffin then another one fly over the case land on cake slices. When we told the person behind the counter they asked us which muffin we want... Needless to say I walked away and I wont be back.. I dont care how good it takes, if it is not clean I am not going to eat it. :-(
Nothing spectacular here. Overpriced for what you would expect them to taste like. More like average muffins with a few interesting fillings or toppings. If you like the taste of cream cheese frosting then this is the place for you, since that seems to be the only frosting they know how to make, and they use it on so many. Sample several and you will see how the tastes blend into each other and bore your tastebuds to sleep. One trip is enough.
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The best muffins ever. You have to try the chocolate dreme. It is all about the chocolate on this one!! What is really under rated is the coffee. If you ask for a fresh pot they will make sure you get it just the way you like. When you ask for extra cream you don't get 90% cream and no coffee, they make it perfect and are always willing to give you stuff on the side for people who like to make it themselves.
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This place is a decadent treat and has a LOT more to offer than gingerbread!
I really enjoy their muffins with cream-cheese icings and fillings. It makes them extra-special! My personal favorite has been the lemon poppyseed with a zesty lemon filling and powdered sugar on top. But, it looks like they have some new flavors that I need to try (like Strawberry Shortcake with fresh strawberries and whipped creme filling). The apple-spice looked really good, and had an apple pie-like filling in the center. Yummy!
The prices are reasonable, too, about $1.50 per muffin, and we didn't have to wait in line for very long.
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Best muffin bakery I have ever been to, and that's saying something since I really am a muffin man :p (at least in that I really appreciate muffins)
Nothing here disappoints. Their offerings range from good to completely fantastic.
In addition to muffins and some odd assorted baked goods, they also sell coffee, but note that this is not a cafe. There is nowhere to sit. This is a takeout place.
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