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What are a couple of your favourite dessert ideas that include tofu?

Early Spring Desserts

Fran Costigan - Early Spring Desserts

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This event was on April 7, 2026

Join Chef Fran Costigan, Rouxbe Director of Vegan Pastry, for a spring look at the flavors, functions, and best uses of brighter and lighter, always tasty vegan desserts. Perfect for beginners and seasoned bakers alike, this session will refresh your skills, boost your confidence, and inspire dessert ideas that bloom all April and beyond.

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Question

Robert Kerr

What are a couple of your favourite dessert ideas that include tofu?

Answer

Tofu chocolate mousse is very nice and quite easy. Chocolate is very assertive flavor, of course, so you don't have to work as hard to get rid of any beanie taste. I never in a tofu dessert want to hear, "I almost don't taste the tofu." You shouldn't taste it at all. I also like tofu creams that are with citrus. They're really delicious. So a nice tofu cream to use with, let's say, a strawberry shortcake, or this time of the year, I might poach some apples and put that inside of a biscuit and use tofu for that as well.

Fran Costigan

Director of Vegan Pastry

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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.