Baker Tala Zilberman 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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Tala Zilberman



AGE: 29

OCCUPATION: Legal Assistant Google

LOCATION: Dublin

NATIONALITY: Israel

SIGNATURE BAKE: Banoffee Cupcakes

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Married



Tala grew up in a Kibbutz in Israel, she said there are controversies reported about them but she feels she had a great & very privileged upbringing. Tala went to Tel Aviv University where she studied Law. She met her husband Liron there. They are together for 6 years. They married in 2009. She was about 12 years old when she attempted baking for the first time, using an old recipe book that was gathering dust in her parents' kitchen cabinet. Her first bake was a birthday surprise for her older sister - cream puffs. She says she is mostly self-taught, but had inspiration in the kitchen from her father and grandmother. She bakes mostly on special occasions, 2-4 times a month. She is baking more now since making the show and bringing a lot more cakes to work now. She laughs saying that every time one is spotted, her colleagues think they have missed or forgotten a birthday and she can’t tell them why she is baking so much.



Tala loves trying new recipes and experimenting with old ones. Macaroons scare her! Tala would definitely describe herself as a perfectionist!! Timing will be her issue because she would normally spend forever making something perfect and decorating it perfectly rather than leaving herself stuck for time to have something done.