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To keep sliced apples from turning brown, you said that you use apple juice. Do you cover the apples with the juice or just dip them? If you cover them with juice, do you then drain and dry them?

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

Carol Haas

To keep sliced apples from turning brown, you said that you use apple juice. Do you cover the apples with the juice or just dip them? If you cover them with juice, do you then drain and dry them?

Answer

I cover them pretty much cover them with the juice or just keep turning them and then I drain them. But if I am, you know, making an apple pie, I just, I drain them really well. I like to pre-cook at least some of my apples if I'm making an apple pie. So, um, that's something that I do with them. And then of course I saved the juice. I saved the juice.

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.