Baker Jenny Donohoe at Stephens Green Dublin when TV3 launched its second series of the hugely successful The Great Irish Bake Off. The highly anticipated new series will be returning to Irish screens on Wednesday 21st May at 9pm on TV3, with 12 new passionate home bakers looking to test their skills to the limit as they battle it out to be crowned The Great Irish Bake Off's Best Amateur Baker 2014.

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Jenny Donohoe



AGE: 30

OCCUPATION: Self-employed hand-crafter and craft teacher

LOCATION: Ranelagh, Dublin

NATIONALITY: Irish

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single, living with two best friends

SIGNATURE BAKE: Gateau Diane or Lemon Meringue Pie



For as long as she can remember, Jenny has always wanted to work in the area of arts and crafts and to be her own boss. She’s always felt formal education was not for her and has never had any major aspirations to do anything outside of crafting. Jenny, who grew up in Ballinteer, studied construction studies for her Leaving Cert, which probably helped with her craft making skills. However she does comment that most of her time in class was spent breaking saws! Jenny’s mum, Hilary, is a seamstress and this is where she originally gets her love of crafting.



After completing a ‘Start your own Business’ course, Jenny decided to set up her own craft company called ‘Delightful.’ She sells hand-crafted gifts, home wares and decorations such as cushions, aprons, wooden signs, and knitted stuffed animals. Jenny’s been baking since childhood but more seriously since the age of 18. Jenny’s mum very much feeds her baking habit. She’s mostly self-taught. Her mum taught her two signature bakes and she did home economics in school but she learned most of what she knows from cookbooks and TV. Jenny LOVES the decorating side of baking, as she is so arty. Savoury pies scare her, so she’s practicing them a lot. Jenny says that as much as Paul and Biddy’s critique scares her, it will be invaluable to get such feedback. She also says that she often wings it a bit with her baking, so it will be interesting to find out what professionals think of her flavour combinations.