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Fran Costigan - Fran's 10th Annual Valentines Spectacular
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Tuesday, February 03, 2026 at 1:00 pm Pacific, 4:00 pm Eastern
Join renowned pastry chef Fran Costigan, Rouxbe’s Director of Vegan Pastry, for her 10th annual Valentine’s Day Spectacular, a live event celebrating indulgent-tasting plant-based de… Read More.
Question:
Can you please go over when to use Dutch chocolate powder or non dutch powder?
— Brenda Neumann
Answer:
Use Dutch process when the recipe is contains as the leave baking soda. Predominantly use natural or non dutched. It's really called non alkalies cocoa powder. Now you will see in many vegan cakes my chocolate cake to live for for example, baking powder and baking soda. And that's because we are replacing the eggs really with chemical, chemical leavening. When I say that, you know, I always stop because chemical doesn't sound good, but these are leavers that we need today I use non alkalized baking powder and I like to use Bob's red mill baking soda. But there are many, I use the um, non aluminum, that's what I meant to say, non aluminum baking powder.