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Is the Rouxbe course an option for me if I am not using or eating any soy products?

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

Elisavet Sotiriadou

Is the Rouxbe course an option for me if I am not using or eating any soy products?

Answer

Yes, absolutely, absolutely. Um, you know, I happen to like soy and I eat quite a lot of tofu, Tempe edamame. I make, I make my own soy yogurt. I made a big batch yesterday and I love it, but I understand that it isn't for everyone. So for that reason, I use oat milk almost exclusively. Um, and I prefer oatley oat milk. And so that's just not a problem at all.

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.