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I heard you can make chickpea flour by high blending dried chickpeas - have you done this and/or used this flour in desserts?

Grateful, Sweet, and Totally Vegan Holiday Desserts

Fran Costigan - Grateful, Sweet, and Totally Vegan Holiday Desserts

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This event was on November 4, 2025

Join Chef Fran Costigan, Rouxbe Director of Vegan Pastry for a discussion of how to make holiday desserts delicious and easy. Fran will offer suggestions for Thanksgiving desserts that wow without any dairy, eggs or refined white sugar or stress.

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Question

Diane Kirschner

I heard you can make chickpea flour by high blending dried chickpeas - have you done this and/or used this flour in desserts?

Answer

I haven't done that. I have purchased chickpea flour from Bob's Red Mill. I keep it in the freezer. I really like it. I add a little bit sometimes to a dessert recipe. And I think, I think, you know, there's so much you can do with chickpea flour. I love sacca and you can try doing that. Sweet. So let me know about, I mean I have heard that as well, that you can blend dried chickpeas. So I would wash them, pick them over, just same as if you were going to be cooking them and then get them nice and dry and then a little at a time in a Vitamix and see how that works. I have actually, Diane, that's not the full story. I made some chickpea flour, um, but it wasn't very, it wasn't fine enough for me and I used it to use as a flour in a dessert. So I used it in combination with whole wheat pastry flour and AP flour to do some breading, I think for tofu.

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.