Champagne brunch - cookery course, Salt Lake City

Make your next celebration truly unforgettable with this artfully designed and deliciously decadent menu. Learn valuable party-planning tips and techniques, and create sophisticated dishes that are perfectly selected for successful home entertaining. It’s everything you need to entertain – except the guest list.

On this course you will learn how to prepare sumptuous dishes ahead of time for an elegant Champagne brunch. Our uniquely delicious do-ahead recipes are guaranteed crowd-pleasers, and the smoked salmon cheesecake is an absolute show-stopper. After tasting these memorable dishes, people will be begging for the recipes. Perfect for holiday entertaining – or for any celebratory occasion!

Skills and techniques covered on the course: Making cheesecake custard; making a salmon “rose”; working with wild mushrooms and fresh asparagus; trimming, roasting and glazing pork; testing pork for doneness; carving pork; candying bacon; making the ultimate biscuit.

The menu:

Smoked salmon cheesecake

Mushroom and Asparagus strata

Rosemary orange-glazed pork tenderloin

Shirley’s feather-light biscuits

Spicy brown sugar bacon

Sample recipe: Mini berry crumb cakes with streusel topping

Bonus recipes: Celebration Champagne cocktails and basil balsamic Bloody Mary’s

The class starts at 10am and finishes at 1pm. We require that students wear closed-toe shoes in all hands-on workshops and an apron will be provided for use in class. After the class personal recipes packets are provided for students to take home.

The Viking Cooking School may be the most enjoyable school on earth - even the homework is fun. From the novice to the experienced cook, over 77,000 students including kids, moms and dads, business professionals, and others come alone, or together with friends, to attend our classes each year. If you love to cook, entertain, or just appreciate the pleasure of great food, the Viking Cooking School is the place to indulge your passions.

Our culinary spirit keeps us on the cutting-edge of all things food and inspires us to constantly evolve our menus with the seasons and current cooking trends. Select from our wide array of exciting classes covering subjects such as ethnic cuisines, basic techniques of cooking, baking, vegetarian, and cocktail and dinner parties, whatever you choose, we'll make sure you have a blast.

Our warm and attentive teachers are the absolute best at their craft. Our recipes are created by professionally trained chefs and tested in our Viking Test Kitchen to ensure they are accurate and clear so that you can recreate them successfully at home in your own kitchen. In line with our commitment to providing students with the best tools, all Viking Cooking Schools are equipped with high-performance, professional Viking appliances, cookware and cutlery. To ensure your every visit to a Viking Cooking School is a first-class experience, we invite each student to give us their feedback after every visit.