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Fran Costigan - New Year's Jumpstart
Core Ingredients for Exceptional Vegan Desserts
Start 2026 on a sweet note. Join Chef Fran Costigan, Rouxbe Director of Vegan Pastry for a January deep-dive into the essential building blocks of vegan desserts. She’ll explore the flavors, functions, and best uses of different flours, sweeteners, cocoa, and chocolate and more, so you can bake smarter and tastier ight from the first whisk of the New Year!.
Perfect for beginners and seasoned bakers alike, this session will reset your confidence, refresh your skills, and inspire delicious desserts all year long.
About Fran Costigan
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.
Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
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