Kate Reid didn’t start her working life as a baker. Long before she was sheeting dough, Kate was trying to get the best out of Williams Formula 1 racing cars as an aerodynamicist. While the high-octane energy of the race track held a definite allure, the precision of pastry making proved to be Kate’s true calling. Soon she had swapped cars for croissants, snagging a spot at celebrated boulangerie Du Pain et Des Idées where she first learned the art of dough making. Upon returning to Melbourne, Kate began reverse-engineering croissants, honing in on a recipe that would soon become Lune’s signature Zont – a piece of edible art beloved by thousands of viennoiseries purists. Now, a decade on from Lune’s founding, Kate is letting home bakers try their hand at making a Lune croissant with her new cookbook Croissants All Day, All Night – a chic tome that is filled with recipes for pastries, as well creative uses for said pasty.

Croissants All Day, All Night starts with a multi-stage recipe for creating raw pastry – a process that has been adapted from Lune’s space-age pastry prep kitchens and tweaked to suit a home kitchen. This recipe is detailed and intensive, with steps on finding the necessary ingredients and equipment, through how to make poolish (a type of liquid pre-ferment used to make bread and yeasted pastry) and croissant dough, as well as execute the lamination process. From here, you’ll be able to shape croissants, pain au chocolat, danishes kouign-amann and cruffins. Mission accomplished, right? Well, if you want to take your newfound talent further, Kate has filled the latter half of Croissants All Day, All Night with recipes for specialised pastries, many of which have featured in Lune’s product range over the past decade. We’re talking recipes for cheese and Vegemite escargots, Lamington cruffins, four-cheese torsades, tomato and taleggio danishes, fried-chicken croissants, pecan pie twice-baked croissants and chocolate-dipped croissant biscotti. If you’ve dreamed of being able to nail croissants, or have a die-hard dough lover in your life that would love to indulge their passions more, Croissants All Day, All Night is an essential cookbook to have on your shelf.