Fran Costigan
Director Vegan Baking and Pastry: Rouxbe Online Culinary School, recipe developer, cookbook author, consultant
Fran Costigan, chef, cookbook author, and director of Vegan Pastry at the Rouxbe Culinary School, the world’s leading online culinary school. She is internationally renowned as the authority on vegan desserts. She is lead instructor for the American Culinary Federation (ACF) approved 90-Day Essential Vegan Desserts Course she developed at Rouxbe.
Professionally trained, Fran was a chef in both traditional and vegan pastry kitchens before moving into teaching 25 years ago. Her 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.
Fran’s cookbook, Vegan Chocolate Dessert: Unapologetically Luscious and Decadent Dairy-Free Desserts, available in German, French and Italian editions, follows the classic, More Great Good Dairy Free Desserts.
Fran has presented at conferences, schools, across North America and Europe, at schools, conferences, festivals, and corporations, at resorts and on cruise ships too, and much of 2020 and 2021, online for individuals, schools, corporations. A professional member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals and American Culinary Federation, Fran is a proud to be an advisory board member of the New York Coalition for Healthy School Foods, and Main Street Vegan Academy.
