French dinner party - cookery course, Salt Lake City

Take your taste buds on a culinary journey that spans the world. Our Around the World classes enable you to travel the world through food – from our classrooms to the globe!

From the classic to the imaginative, our impressive French menu has it all. Beef Wellington is perfect for a dinner party, as it can be assembled ahead and baked just before serving. In this technique-intensive workshop, discover the secret to perfect soups, soufflés and mousse – then sit down to enjoy your très chic French feast. Vive la France!

Skills and techniques that will be covered on the course:

Caramelizing onions

Working with puff pastry

Working with white chocolate

Whipping and folding egg whites and heavy cream

Making a coulis

The menu:

French onion soup with croutons

Spinach soufflé

Individual Beef Wellingtons

Béarnaise sauce

White chocolate mousse with raspberry coulis

Bonus recipe: potato-stuffed mushrooms

The class starts at 6pm and finishes at 9pm. 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.