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Fran Costigan - Desserts With a Difference
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Question:
I don't use oil or sugar. I also know your recipes are very precise. Is it possible to substitute, and will they come out similar? What would you suggest as a substitute for oil?
— Mary Michaud
Answer:
Well dessert baking
desserts really the recipes
should be precise. You want
the same result every time and a
tablespoon here more or less
might not matter with fruit in a cobbler,
but it matters. So thank you for noticing that
however, Mary doesn't use oil
or sugar.
Is it possible to substitute and will they
come out similar? What would you suggest for
oil? Well similar is
better than as good as because I
think there is a difference.
in essential vegan desserts course
is a course a full course
in foundational technique for making vegan
desserts that are
absolutely unapologetically delicious
and
Foundational technique is taught so
that people can then go on
and make their own variations and substitutions.
It's always a good idea to make the
recipe as written. Assuming your you
have a recipe that is a reliable
recipe underline underline underline.
Don't want to make the whole thing cut it in half cut
it by a quarter and test. So while
we are not essential vegan desserts.
It's not an oil-free sweetener-free course, we
have many desserts that are naturally sugar and
oil free. The gel is one.
It's wonderful. I'm going to add some.
Lemon cream to this. I'm not doing it
very nicely because well I
could walk over here. I can walk over to my drawer.
Because I have a nice wireless mic now.
And load this up with fruit.
Well, actually I'm going to use blueberries because it's a blueberry base.
and here is
an oil and sugar-free dessert that's
delicious in our course. We have
a unit on how to make dessert
have two substitute for
fat and many people.
Are satisfied with using applesauce for
example in place of fat, it has
pectin so it will keep your baked good
moist and it also has some
binding effect in terms
of sweetener the fruit Pace that you
saw it's not going to work in a cake, but you
might consider using some coconut sugar
that could work or go to
desserts that are naturally sugar
and oil free. There are many
there are many we have them in the course and they're
and Forks Over Knives has a whole bunch.
So you'll be able to do it.