YES, YOU CAN MAKE VEGAN TRUFFLES. SO MUCH YUM!

The SECRETS to creating a trio of vegan Chocolate Truffles! Watch today’s #LunchBreakLIVE with vegan pastry chef Fran Costigan.  She is the master of decadent plant-based desserts and it is such a treat having her here to show us how to make these incredible dessert truffles that will blow your mind, not only because they taste amazing, but also because they are so simple to make!  let’s see how it is done…

HOW DOES SHE DO IT?

Fran Costigan, chef, cookbook author, and Director of Vegan Baking and Pastry at the Rouxbe Online Culinary School, is internationally renowned as the authority on vegan desserts. Professionally trained, Fran was a chef in both traditional and vegan pastry kitchens before moving into teaching 25 years ago, at the time she embraced the vegan lifestyle. Her unapologetically luscious confections lack nothing — except dairy, eggs, white sugar, and cholesterol. Fran’s vegan desserts are appropriate for everyone who loves dessert, whether or not dietary restrictions are an issue. The 90-day Essential Vegan Desserts Course that Fran developed and leads at Rouxbe, the world’s leading online cooking school, is based on her wildly popular Vegan Baking Boot Camp Intensive®. She is thrilled to welcome students of all skill levels, beginners to professionals, from around the globe to this unique in the world course.

Fran’s cookbook, Vegan Chocolate Dessert: Unapologetically Luscious and Decadent Dairy-Free Desserts, is available in German, French and Italian editions, and follows the classic, More Great Good Dairy Free Desserts.

You can find Fran sharing her knowledge and passion across North America and Europe, at schools, conferences, festivals, and corporations at resorts and on cruise ships too, and in 2020 2021, online.

A professional member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, Women Chefs and Restaurateurs, Les Dames d’ Escoffier, American Culinary Federation, Fran is proud to be an advisory board member of the New York Coalition for Healthy School Foods, Vegan Trade Council, and Main Street Vegan Academy. Fran wants everyone to know that she eats big plates of beans and greens and grains before she enjoys her daily small sweet treat!

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Essential Vegan Desserts at Rouxbe

Fran Costigan

SO LET’S MAKE SOME VEGAN TRUFFLES!  THE CHOCOLATE LOVERS DREAM.

Learn to make a luxurious vegan chocolate truffle ganache and you’ve got super easy and reliable and gluten-free goodness to pop out of your freezer and enjoy.

Fran uses her ganache recipe in so many different ways.  She uses it for Glaze Cakes and Dip for Cupcakes, Chocolate Crostini with Flaked Salt, Ice Cream Topping, Fondue, Chocolate Milk and Hot Chocolate, NYC Eggless Creams, Fancy Filled Raspberries, French Chocolate Mousse, plus, you can change the formula to make Truffles.

After serving hundreds of truffles made with nondairy milk, Fran is convinced that they taste more chocolatey than their heavy cream-based counterparts. Thin it with more plant milk to make a pouring ganache.

Different ways to use the vegan Ganache.

The vegan truffles.

Fran and her vegan truffles.

Another dessert that uses Fran’s vegan chocolate ganache.

NOTHING BEATS DESSERT FOR LUNCH!

I can’t complain when we get dessert for lunch!  I am sure most people wouldn’t turn down vegan truffles over a salad!  Haha.  With the recipe being so simple, I hope you give it a try.  If you do, be sure to take a photo and tag @JaneUnChainedNews on Instagram.  Leave a comment here and let us know how you liked the truffles.  If you are in search of other plant-based recipes to try, be sure to visit the #LunchBreakLIVE page where we have a ton to choose from.  Until next time…keep cookin’!