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Fran Costigan - Whisk, Whip, and Wow
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Get ready to elevate your plant-based dessert skills with none other than Chef Fran Costigan, the acclaimed Director of Vegan Pastry at Rouxbe! Join us for an exciting live session o… Read More.
Question:
I make a plant based vanilla pudding and adding the vanilla extract turns the pudding to an ugly grey color. Any ideas how to prevent this from happening?
— Cathy Chapman
Answer:
Well, that's kind of yucky. Um, I'm curious, Kathy, if you're using a vegan sugar because vegan sugar, vegan cane sugar contains a bit of the molasses, not much, but some that's inherent in the cane. So you don't always get a pure white or vanilla color. Um, you can try using artificial vanilla or vanilla in it's called, which is clear and see if that will make a difference.
