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Healthier Holiday Desserts

Fran Costigan - Healthier Holiday Desserts

This event was on Wednesday, November 09, 2022 at 1:00 pm Pacific, 4:00 pm Eastern

It’s the time of year to be thinking about Holiday Meals, and Holiday Desserts are a must!

This year let’s enjoy desserts that are healthier and lighter but no less delightful.

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Question:

I love pumpkin pie, what the best substitute for oil and eggs in a recipe to make it bake up properly? Also, what about a no oil crust?

— Jeanette Willard

Answer:

What replaces the eggs in this pie and this pie has gotten I mean this pie recipe that a lot of people and I get very good feedback on it. You can buy. some organic pumpkin comes either in a box like this. Or and this is larger than the cans. I think you always want to see this is 16 ounces or a can. Which is 15 ounces of the same thing what I did to make the little pumpkin that I showed you when I'm going to show you a filling too was I just I had roasted some. butternut squash and a sweet potato and I use that instead and because I did a test what I did was I weighed my ingredients, you know, I divided the recipe in half. I weighed my ingredients. It's much easier to divide something in half when you're using gram weight and it worked well, so I'm just going to put let's see. Where is my I have to put another ror air pod in is that with it called these things. Yeah, I think so. I have started to use. a bit of baked sweet potato roasted sweet potato in my pumpkin pies in my pumpkin desserts. I think the flavor is fabulous pumpkin neat is Bland on its own particularly the packaged kind and so we want to really spice it up and oftentimes I do a spiced pumpkin first where I cook the spices into the pumpkin. Before I just add them in it makes the pie a bit darker but really tastes good and here I'm getting another vegetable into the filling. I've got potato now. I roast my potatoes or cook them. However, you cook them ahead put them in the refrigerator to cool and that's when I'm told or we've read that you've got some resistance starch at that point. But also, I think the flavor really improves I think one of these days I'm gonna do a sweet potato pie with a purple potato. I think that will really be fun. So what replaces the eggs, let's see. It's behind me. in this pie it is silken tofu. Now the recipe calls for for a full pie it calls for one Tetra pack, so these are shelf stable until you open them of extra firm or firm more new or Moringa isn't another brand that I know tofu. It says 12.5 ounces 349 grams you open this up. I always wash the top first you open it up and tip out the water and that's in the recipe and then I waited and I had How do I know I wrote it on the box? So I'd remember to tell you I had 330 grams, not 349. It was very easy to divide it in half. But I didn't divide it quite in half because I wanted to fill. Yeah, I did divide it in half. It was the sweet potato and the Pumpkin I did differently so you do not taste the tofu. You should not taste the tofu. Unless you're having a tofu scramble or something where you want to taste the tofu. So I like to puree first with the spices again. You've got the recipe for it, but in terms of spices, I think this is really important.
Fran Costigan

Fran Costigan

Director of Vegan Pastry

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