Fran Costigan is available for consultations, appearances and cooking demonstrations, private classes and custom desserts-in NYC and in your town too.

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2008 Classes
check back as more are likely to be added

JUNE
Thursday, June 5, 6 to 9pm Whole Foods Market Bowery, NYC
Vegan Chocolate Decadence for Everyone
Register on line

Tuesday, June 10, 7 to 9pm Whole Foods Market, Princeton, NJ
Old Fashioned Snack Cakes Made Organically Healthy & Vegan
Details to follow

Thursday, June 12, 6:30 to 10pm Natural Gourmet Institute, NYC
Easy & Elegant Ways with Chocolate


Wednesday, June 18 to Sunday June 22
NAVS Summerfest in Johnstown, PA 
Fran will be teaching several classes and doing a dessert demonstration too.


Friday, June 27, 10am to 5pm Natural Gourmet Institute, NYC
Classically Elegant Vegan Cakes Deconstructed


JULY
Monday, July 7 to Friday, June 11  Natural Gourmet Institute, NYC
Fran Costigan's Vegan Baking Boot Camp 
Reminder: Enrollment is limited to 14 students, SOLD OUT.

see photos from the last Boot Camp by Emilie Hardman on this page

Tuesday July 15, 10am to 2pm Institute of Culinary Education, NYC
Diner Cream Pies Veganized!


AUGUST
Friday, August 18,  6:30 to 10pm  Natural Gourmet Institute NYC
Extraordinary Blueberry Creations


Wednesday August 20th, 10am to 2pm Institute of Culinary Education, NYC
Farmer’s Market Rustic Summer Fruit Tarts - hands-on


Thursday August 21, 6 to 10pm Institute of Culinary Education, NYC
Old-Fashioned Snack Cakes Made Healthier - hands-on

SEPTEMBER
Friday, September 26,  6 to 9:30pm Natural Gourmet Institute, NYC
Vegan Chocolate Decadence


OCTOBER
Thursday, October 2 to Tuesday, October 5th (skips Sunday)
Natural Gourmet Institute, NYC
Fran Costigan's Vegan Baking Boot Camp 
ADDITIONAL BOOT CAMP SERIES: Don't be closed out! Sign up fast
Enrollment is limited to 14 students

see photos from a recent Boot Camp by Emilie Hardman on this page

Thursday, October 23, 10am to 2pm
Institute of Culinary Education, NYC
Old-Fashioned Snack Cakes Made Healthier - hands-on

NOVEMBER
Thusday, November 6, 10am to 2pm New Class!
Institute of Culinary Education, NYC
The Very Best Chocolate Desserts That Just Happen to be Cholesterol Free

2008 highlights

January: I was interviewed for FootFit.com by Sloane Miller. Reruns of her Chocolate Cake baking segment ran on FitTV (Get Fresh with Sara Snow Show), and  made a huge, custom Chocolate Cake to Live For by for my dear friend Walter Feldsman's 90th Birthday Party!

Mid-January to early February: I enjoyed a spectacular 3 weeks in Europe, visiting Monte Carlo, Budapest and Paris. I spent time in museums, galleries and of course, food markets, bakeries, and restaurants. Many ideas for new, healthier versions of traditional desserts are in process.  I've already used smoked Hungarian paprika in brownies--just great. Link to photos

February: I taught several classes, Retro Desserts, Old_Fashioned Desserts, Cupcakes and The Winter Vegan Baking Boot Camp, which sold out fast and found students from both coasts working hard and creatively. Boot Campers were treated to a tour of a NYC Chocolate Factory. New friendships, sharing of excellent information, lots of tasting at the end of each day, visiting NYC restaurants, and more, as the winter weather cooperated. What a wonderful group; I was in heaven. See photos in NEWS .

Coming up:
Another next radio interview with the one and only Louis Free http://free.vindy.com who dubbed me the Dessertrix! and classes at Whole Foods Markets, NYC and Princeton NJ.

Watch for my restaurant review for Vegetarian Voice (summer), The North American Vegetarian Voice Magazine, as I look forward to the NAVS Summerfest in June.

And! I will be making wedding cake for my daughter Tracy's wedding in May. Now that is good news indeed!

I am getting closer to publishing my blog, so we can be more interactive.  In the meantime, please write to me via this website's link to my email address. I will reply.
Please support my books with comments, requests of your bookstores, and recommendations, if you'd be so kind.

Tell me what you'd like and let's co-create. ...
Eat clean, green, whole and save room for good desserts!