Sales breakdown: cakes (includes cupcakes, wedding and decorated cakes), 60%; cookies, 20%; Danish/donuts, 11%; miscellaneous, 9%

Management: Ken and Betty Slove, owners; Matt Slove, general manager; Jenny Cruz, head decorator

Number of employees: 48 (37 in Round Lake Beach, 11 in Libertyville)

Annual sales: $2.5 to 3 million in 2010 (est.)

Ingredients as a percentage of sales: 31%

Labor as a percentage of sales: 35% (40% during wedding cake season)

Bakery supply distributors: BakeMark, Dawn Foods, Standard Foods, Rungee Paper, South Holland Bakery Supply, Burton and Burton

Major equipment: double rotating rack oven, 25-pan deck oven, two 140-qt. mixers, three 20-qt. mixers, reversible sheeter, cake depositor, two 10-ft. by 20-ft. walk-in freezers, 10-ft. by 20-ft. walk-in cooler, 12-ft. by 12-ft. walk in cooler, cookie depositor, flour sifter and pan washer

Lovin Oven Cakery sampling of prices

Butter cookies, per lb. $14.63

Gourmet cookies, each $0.89 (chocolate, chip, peanut butter, sugar, double chocolate chip,)

Character sugar cookie, each $2.96

Brownies

Fudge, Tollhouse, each $1.05
German chocolate, turtle, each $1.16
Éclair, each $3.18

Canolli, each $3.18

Cream horn, each $3.18

Pie, slice $1.09

Pies, 9 ins.
Fruit $11.28
Whipped cream $12.93
Pecan $13.70

Continental cake, slice $3.18

Opera cake, slice $3.25

Tortes, 8 ins.
European (20 varieties) $25.95
Gourmet (8 varieties) $33.95

Cupcakes $1.49
Decorated/special $2.39

Cakes, 8 ins. $25.95
10 ins. $48.13
Quarter sheet, unfilled $35.75
Quarter sheet, filled $43.84

Decoration charges
Drawings $24.00
Simple art $12.00
Photo art $11.00