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Sweet and Natural Desserts for June

Fran Costigan - Sweet and Natural Desserts for June

This event was on Wednesday, June 07, 2023 at 1:00 pm Pacific, 4:00 pm Eastern

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 signa… Read More.

Recorded

Question:

Is there an existing chart for sweeteners available if we want to swap them?

— Linda L.

Answer:

Well you are going to find if you Google that, you're going to find a lot of different charts and they're all going to be different. I can tell you that for sure. And there are very few, I haven't found one that's accurate. Um, it depends on the sweetener. We have a chart in a, we have two charts in essential vegan desserts on swapping sweeteners. And the answer is always, always that you have to do a test. So one of the, you know, one of the tips that I can give people who are new to be vegan baking or remind people who are vegan bakers is choose your recipes wisely. Don't just pick up a recipe that someone told you about or look good to you and you don't know who wrote it and there are no comments on it. That's one thing. And another is when you are trying a recipe for the first time, particularly if it's someone someone's recipe you don't know, it's not a chef or an author that you have confidence in is to cut the recipe in half, maybe in a quarter, maintain the integrity of the dessert. So if it's a cake, make a cupcake or two, same depth of batter and see how that goes and see how that goes.
Fran Costigan

Fran Costigan

Director of Vegan Pastry

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