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I want to use your single layer vanilla cake to make a honey cake. How could i do this?

Sweet and Natural Desserts for June

Fran Costigan - Sweet and Natural Desserts for June

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This event was on June 7, 2023

Join us for an exciting live event celebrating the new season of fruits and yes, vegetables too, with renowned pastry chef Fran Costigan, our Director of Vegan Pastry. With her signature enthusiasm and passion, Chef Fran will share tips on choosing, storing, and using early summer produce to make luscious plant-based desserts that are sure to satisfy everyone’s craving. Guiding us with expert techniques and innovative recipes, Fran will demonstrate how to achieve the balance of flavor, texture, and appeal in each delightful bite. While some desserts are free of added sugar and a few are no-oil added, others are a bit more decadent. Still, all are fruit forward, and more nutritious than their traditional counterparts. With Chef Fran’s help, you’ll learn how to make desserts ahead, both fully and from components to assembled when you are ready to serve. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the leading voices in vegan desserts. You will leave feeling empowered and inspired to make some fabulous sweet and natural desserts.

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Question

Linda L.

I want to use your single layer vanilla cake to make a honey cake. How could i do this?

Answer

So this is a big question that Linda asks. I don't think she is aware of how much, how many riffs I can do on this. First of all, there are many vegans, I would say the majority of vegans who don't eat honey because honey is an animal product. Strictly speaking. Now in my cookbook, vegan Chocolate, I wrote about it and I said I saw a film called Queen of the Sun about beekeepers all over the world who were trying to save the bees and um, it really made an impression on me. So I do buy some local honey for myself, not commercial honey, you Linda is not talking about commercial honey, but Linda, you, Linda and all of you, you can't just use honey in a cake. All of the liquid sweeteners are different. They have not only different flavor profiles but they have different properties. So you can't do that. You can't make the vanilla cake into a honey cake switching out the granulated sugar for honey. Even if you use less honey and use more, you know more of something else, it's not going to bake right. But I put a link to my vegan honey cake in the q and a. Now I will tell you that that cake, that cake is delicious. My family really likes it and my friends do and it's pretty made in a bunt pan, but I make a vegan honey, I think that you could swap out your bee honey. Mine is a be less honey. But Linda, what I would do is cut the recipe by a quarter and see what you can do, make a cupcake and see how it works. So that's the answer.

Links

Fran Costigan's Vegan Honey Cake

Fran Costigan

Director of Vegan Pastry

FranCostigan.com

Fran Costigan is internationally renowned as the authority on vegan desserts. Trained at the New York Restaurant School and Natural Gourmet Institute, Fran was a chef in both traditional and vegan pastry kitchens before moving into teaching over 20 years ago. A lifelong chocoholic and long time vegan, Fran’s latest book, Vegan Chocolate: Unapologetically Luscious and Decadent Dairy Free Desserts, (Running Press 2013) is for all who madly, deeply love chocolate desserts, whether or not dietary considerations are an issue. Her previous cookbook, More Great Good Dairy-Free Desserts Naturally (Book Publishing Company 2006) is the basis of the Costigan Vegan Baking Boot Camp Intensive®. For more information, www.francostigan.com.