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Holiday Dessert Prep Made Easy

Fran Costigan - Holiday Dessert Prep Made Easy

This event was on Tuesday, December 02, 2025 at 1:00 pm Pacific, 4:00 pm Eastern

The big December holidays are coming and Chef Fran Costigan, Rouxbe Director of Vegan Pastry is ready to help with desserts that are both sensational and simple to make. From showsto… Read More.

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Question:

Do you by any chance have a good vegan profiterole recipe you could share with me?

— Lucy Barrera Méndez

Answer:

Well there are more vegan patisseries now and to make things like per Fiero and um, laminated dough ingredients that I personally don't care to use or teach are used per fiero are basically you're making a pade with flour and egg and butter. So it really shouldn't be too hard to do that. I will tell you that the flour is not a problem. Vegan butter is not a problem when you are baking. You must use vegan butter blocks or sticks not spread and one that tastes relatively good to you. Um, I find them very easy to find in the marketplace today. And in terms of egg replacer here, I'm looking at reduced aquafaba or maybe super aquafaba, which would be aquafaba that is, has been used to dissolve a little bit of chia, ground chia. I prefer chia to flax. Uh, I just do. But when, you know, stay tuned 'cause I think that I'm there.
Fran Costigan

Fran Costigan

Director of Vegan Pastry

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