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Fall Flavors Are Calling

Fran Costigan - Fall Flavors Are Calling

This event was on Tuesday, October 07, 2025 at 1:00 pm Pacific, 4:00 pm Eastern

When we think of autumn desserts, the usual suspects—cinnamon, clove, and nutmeg—often take center stage. But the season offers so much more! In this month’s Essential Vegan Desserts… Read More.

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Question:

What is the best thing to use to replace an egg wash on pastry crust to give it a nice coloring?

— Katherine Doucette

Answer:

So there are, you have some options. Plant milk with a little bit of sweetener maple or agave brushed on your baked good before it goes into the oven is one option. In that case, soy milk really gives you the best result because soy milk has the most protein, but you could try it as well with, um, oat milk if soy is a problem for you. Also, aquafaba, which is chickpea liquid. The liquid that chickpeas are cooked in what we make our vegan meringue with what we make our baked Alaska in the course with is another option. If you, that's something that will give you a more of a firm. More of a firm. I wanna say, I'm trying to think of the word coating. Um, it would give you a, a nice coating and for the deepest color, non-dairy milk plus oil, plus some sugar. So those are all great. Sometimes if I'm doing uh, like a danish, I want a stickier coating. I use, I like to use apricot jam or um, orange marmalade and I really like that.
Fran Costigan

Fran Costigan

Director of Vegan Pastry

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