Images: Behind the Scenes at Central Continental Bakery in Mount Prospect
Kowalczyk puts the finishing touches on one of 200 gingerbread houses.
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Cake designer Joanna Ontiveros wields a Christmas sheet cake destined for an office party, while working in the cake room of Central Continental Bakery.
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Decorator Chris Kowalczyk busily assembles an order for 200 gingerbread houses for a client.
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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 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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Sporting a tattoo that reads Cakes on her right arm, Kendall College graduate Tammy Montesinos works on some fondant figures for her next cake creation.
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Connie Trakas, general manager of production and 28-year veteran at the bakery, pulls out a rack of Christmas sugar cookies ready to be packed and displayed in the store.
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Chris Kowalczyk gathers parts for a large order of gingerbread houses.
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