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Looking for oil alternatives for pie crust that are vegan and if you've got a good Gluten-free recipe?

Vegan Holiday Showstopper Desserts for Everyone

Fran Costigan - Vegan Holiday Showstopper Desserts for Everyone

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This event was on December 6, 2022

Join Vegan Pastry Master Fran Costigan for an exploration of Holiday Showstopper desserts! Learn how to make the spectacular holiday log known as Buche de Noel complete with mushrooms and forest ‘dirt’ and how to make Baked Jelly Donut (Sufganiyot) for Chanukah. The Chef Fran way means making components ahead, a simpler shaped cake and variations for dietary considerations. Bring your questions and an appetite for some amazing holiday desserts. You won’t want to miss this event!

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Question

Christie Decker

Looking for oil alternatives for pie crust that are vegan and if you've got a good Gluten-free recipe?

Answer

Well any nut crust or you can use your food processor to make a crust using soft pitted middle dates or prunes and nuts or seeds or oats until It can be pressed and then you are probably going to freeze that before you use it or you could perhaps bake it at some oat flour, but press press are really the way to go there.

Fran Costigan

Director of Vegan Pastry

FranCostigan.com

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.