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How Central Continental bakes love into its treats

How Central Continental bakes love into its treats

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Cake decorator Chris Kowalczyk busily assembles an order for 200 gingerbread houses for a client.

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Joanna Ontiveros uses an air brush to create a winter scene on a cake.

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Cake designer Joanna Ontiveros, left, uses a stool to do lettering on a cake with a winter scene in the cake room of Central Continental Bakery.

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Afternoon manager Katie Czerniak, a third-generation Czerniak family member, stocks the display case with Christmas cookies.

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Cake decorator Chris Kowalczyk puts the finishing touches on one of 200 gingerbread houses at Central Continental Bakery in Mount Prospect.

Bob Chwedyk | Staff Photographer

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Behind the scenes of well-known bake shop Central Continental Bakery in Mount Prospect where employees are busy making many of the holiday treats that will be enjoyed in coming weeks.

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