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Sales of brownies and dessert bars averaged $125 per week per bakery during the 52 weeks ending March 28, 2009. The sales represented a 9.6% increase from the same period a year earlier, according to a recent report published in Modern Baking, a sister publication of SN. The report, from The Perishables Group, West Dundee, Ill., noted that gourmet/large brownies generated the most significant gains

byMatthew Enis