If you want to take your vegan cooking to the next level, then these online vegan cooking classes are the best way. I wish I’d taken a vegan cooking class when I went vegan in 2008, but there weren’t any where I lived and I don’t think I’d heard of an online cooking class back then (if any existed).
Instead, I muddled through, making a few mistakes along the way (including an early attempt at Thai-style peanut noodles made of rehydrated ramen noodles and peanut butter I mixed with water and salt in my dorm room – and nothing else).
I taught myself to cook and eventually ended up with a vegan blog and even having my recipes published in print (and had a guest recipe published in a cookbook), but I could have gotten better a lot faster with the help of a class!
So to help you avoid a very gross peanut sauce experience, I’ve put together this list of online vegan cooking courses (plus a few offline options).
The best online vegan cooking classes:
- 450+ videos and new videos added every week
- Run by certified plant-based cook and former teacher Kim and her husband Carlos
- Learn how to make a wide range of vegan dishes, as well as tips on batch cooking, improving your relationship with food & much more
- Courses on tofu, baking (including how to make your own vegan croissants and sourdough!), holiday recipes, how to go vegan, and more
- Learn how to cook intuitively, without a recipe
- Master making healthy food
- Access to live talks
- Private mentoring
- 200+ videos focusing on core techniques
- Good for complete beginners who want to cover all bases
- Complete in 6 months to receive a certificate of completion
- Approved for 215 CE hours with ACFEF/6 college credits through ACE
- Designed for those who ant to become a professional chef
- Approved by the State of Colorado department of higher education as a private vocational school
- Receive a diploma
- Learn about business concepts as well as cooking techniques
- Live weekly meetings with mentors and up to 6 classmates
- Live virtual workshops, exams, food photography, 500 graded assignments
- 654 hours over 9 months
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Brownble online vegan cooking school
Brownble’s online vegan cookery course is my top pick for home cooks looking to learn vegan cooking basics, organise your kitchen and your cooking and improve your relationship with food.
Kim, the certified plant-based cook and mastermind behind Brownble’s vegan cooking school runs one of my favourite vegan cooking sites around, and best of all, she has an incredible patience and a wonderful way of explaining things, likely in part due to her teaching experience (she used to be a teacher).
Kim is a friend of mine (we met thanks to our blogs) and I have the good fortune of eating some of her delicious creations a few years ago when I was visiting Madrid and went over to her house for some snacks and drinks. The food she made was the best food I ate in my whole week in Madrid, so I wholeheartedly recommend learning from Kim.
When you join Brownble, you’ll get access to more than 450 vegan cooking videos for every meal of the day and all kinds of different cuisines (including raw and gluten free recipes), with new recipes coming out every week! You’ll also get printable PDFs of every recipe.
Best of all, Kim teaches you how to organise your kitchen, meal prep and even to improve your relationship with food, if you’ve experienced difficulties in the past.
My favourite part of these plant based cooking classes is how affordable it all is! You can choose between Brownble membership plans: monthly membership, annual membership or lifetime access. Also great for vegan cooking gifts, you have the option of gifting a membership.
Inside Brownble’s online school, you’ll also find a cheese-making course, Melt, plus for anyone new to the vegan lifestyle, a course on how to go vegan (The Roadmap). In December 2025, Brownble launched a new course I cannot wait to check out: The Bakery, with lessons on how to make vegan croissants, sourdough and vegan pain au chocolat (omg!).
You can see what current Brownble students think. One student called the videos “sincere and approachable” and said it helped her eat a healthy vegan diet as well as escape body insecurities.
School of Natural Cookery
The School of Natural Cookery’s vegan Natural Chef course is a 9-month pro course and at the end you’ll get the Natural Chef Certificate.
The Natural Chef training is perfect if you really want to improve your cooking schools or are looking to start or further a career in the food industry.
Previously, this plant-based chef course was partially online and partially in-person but it’s now available entirely online.
In fact, they were one of the first culinary schools to be approved to teach fully online for their Diploma course (which is aimed at professionals). One aspect of The School of Natural Cookery that differs from other online cooking courses is that it’s approved by the State of Colorado as a private vocational school.
The School of Natural Cookery takes a completely different approach to plant-based cookery than most. Founded over three decades ago, this natural chef school pioneered an ‘intuitive cooking‘ approach that is based on learning techniques of working with whole, local ingredients rather than using recipes.
If you’d like to learn how to develop recipes based on ingredients from your local farmer’s market, based on whole food, plant-based cuisine, then The School of Natural Cookery is for you. Personally, I’ve found cooking intuitively the best way to save money on buying vegetables by making use of what’s in season and eat more in tune with the seasons, as well as cutting food waste. With the intuitive cooking technique, you’ll learn how to prepare meals using whatever ingredients you have in the fridge.
Rouxbe plant-based certification
Rouxbe cooking school is a a leading online course provider (running online cooking classes since 2005) and they offer one plant-based option, their Plant-Based Certification.
Rouxbe’s Plant-Based certification was co-created by vegan chef Chad Sarno (one of the leading plant-based chefs, co-founder of Wicked Kitchen and chef behind now-closed vegan restaurant Saf, which still ranks as one of the best vegan restaurants I ever ate in). However, it’s unclear whether he’s still involved in teaching the course.
All the vegan cooking lessons take place online, meaning you can complete this online plant based cooking course from anywhere in the world. You’ll receive lifetime access to the vegan culinary classes, but to receive a Certificate of Completion, you’ll need to finish the course and all assignments in 6 months.
The Rouxbe plant-based course contains over 200 videos on cooking vegan. Classes run over the course of 18 units, with more than 85 lessons, teaching you critical cooking techniques. You’ll receive personalised instructor support and grades as part of this masterclass in vegan cooking, so you can ensure you’re making progress.
As well as learning the basics of vegan cooking techniques, lessons focus on raw food, oil free cooking and gluten free. To earn Rouxbe Plant-Based Certification in 6 months, you should expect to dedicate around 12-15 hours per week for studying and practice in the kitchen.
Forks over Knives cooking course
This whole foods, plant-based cooking course is a good introduction to the basics of cooking this way. The whole course is oil-free, and uses whole grain ingredients.
This class is less in-depth than others. It has 55 hours of video and covers basic knife techniques, cooking without oil, time-saving cooking strategies and more. Like the Forks Over Knives books, it’s a whole-foods, plant-based course that uses whole grains and no oil (not my style of cooking, but YMMV!).
You get lifetime access to the plant-based cooking class online, which is a big bonus and better than most other courses on the list. There are also virtual Q&As from instructors, and quizzes to track your progress.
Essential Vegan Desserts with Fran Costigan (on Rouxbe)
Learn from one of the masters of vegan baking, the legend that is vegan pastry chef Fran Costigan. If you wish you could go to vegan pastry school, this course is as close as you can get online to a vegan baking school!
I’ve been lucky enough to see Fran speak and attend in-person vegan pastry courses of hers and she is a master of vegan pastries.
In this vegan baking course online, you’ll learn everything you need to know about vegan pastry making. This 90-day course consists of 8 units and 200 tasks involving a whopping 200 vegan recipes!
The course is on Rouxbe, one of the leading platforms for online cooking courses and you’ll received personalised grading and support online.
You’ll learn about:
- equipment you need
- how to select ingredients
- foundational techniques for baking vegan desserts
- to make a wide variety of dairy- and egg-free pastries including cakes, tarts, pies, gels, mousses and trifles (and working with aquafaba)
More online vegan cooking lasses
Wicked Healthy Kids cooking class
Want to learn how to cook with your kids? Wicked Healthy’s free vegan cooking classes for kids are available on Youtube. Vegan chef Chad Sarno, along with the help of of little chefs, will show you and your children how to make brunches for the whole family, veggie-centric dips and more.
Another option for a (paid) vegan kids cooking class is Tiny Green Chef.
The Vegan Chef School online
The Vegan Chef School is an online cooking school in the UK aimed at training professional chefs. You’ll learn food safety and hygiene as well as how to create and scale recipes, how to design a menu and how to plate meals. There’s also an internship scheme and talks by restaurateurs and others in the industry. Finally, the school also offers a Vegan Nutrition course, created with a professional nutritionist, which will teach you the basics of vegan nutrition and how to apply it to cooking.
CozyMeal
Are you looking for interactive online vegan classes that replicate the experience of an in-person cooking class over the internet?
Cozymeal is a site where you can find cooking classes (on and offline) and they have a wide selection of live, interactive vegan online courses. These are one-off classes, usually tailored around a specific cuisine where you’ll learn a few dishes from that cuisine.
For example, past classes include: Thai Favorites Made Vegan, Intro to Vegan Comfort Cooking and Vegan Tacos and Mango Margaritas (that would be a fun one to do with friends, especially great if your friends live far away!).
FAQ
Why take an online cooking class?
If you’re looking for vegan cooking lessons, these vegan classes are the best way to up-level your vegan cooking skills. Learn to cook vegan meals that will satisfy all.
Ranging from plant based cooking classes online that teach you how to cook vegan dishes and organise your kitchen to pro-level vegan chef courses that teach you knife skills and other chef-type expertise, these vegan courses appeal to all levels and aims.
What’s the benefit to it being online?
If you don’t live near an in-person vegan cooking class, then it’s the best option. The best way to improve your cooking skills is study and practice, and thanks to the internet, you can now do that from anywhere in the world – even if you live in Timbuktu, and don’t have a vegan cooking school round the corner!
Because you can do them from anywhere, you can carry on learning even when traveling. Most of them allow you to work at your own pace as well.
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5 thoughts on “The 14 Best Online Vegan Cooking Classes to Help You Conquer the Kitchen in 2026”
I hope to be a raw vegan or fruitarian, but I cannot find a teacher in Macao. Please give me suggestions. Thank you !
Hi Sharon, I’m afraid I don’t know of anyone in Macao! I’d look on Facebook for a vegan group in Macao and ask there… Or try an online class — look at Veecoco (in post above), they’ve got a Raw Vegan Essentials course! I’ve also got a link to a raw class on Udemy above.
Hi. I am looking for a vegan cooking school or classes offered in Spain, France or Italy. I’d also consider Boston to start. I’ve read a lot about Vegan Gastronomy in Palma de Mallorca but it has several bad reviews. I may still consider taking a class there – but don’t want to commit or invest in more than 1 week until I know for myself. Any information would be appreciated. Learning about vegan cooking is for personal use but it may lead to a plant-based business. Thank you.
Hi Beth,
I don’t know much about Vegan Gastronomy as I haven’t been but here in Barcelona there’s a vegan cooking school (mostly focused on desserts/pastry) that a friend of a friend went to and liked; maybe you can look into it and find more reviews. It’s called Toni Rodriguez Academy: https://www.tonirodriguezacademy.com/?lang=en I can also confirm Barcelona’s a great city for vegan food! Hope that helps. :)
I’ve been doing vegan cooking classes for five years with a special focus on kids and nutrition! I now do live, virtual cooking classes every Tuesday afternoons from 4-5 pm US Eastern, standard time. https://www.vege-cooking.com/virtual I’d love to be added to your list for live virtual, vs courses. This allows people to ask questions!