Baker Tracy Coyne 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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Tracy Coyne



AGE: 41

OCCUPATION: Banker

LOCATION: Kerry

NATIONALITY: Irish

SIGNATURE BAKE: Chocolate Fudge (aka millionaires’ shortcake)

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Separated with 3 kids



Tracy is born and bred in Killarney and she says she is a Kerry woman through and through. She is one of 4 girls (second youngest) and she is extremely close to her sisters. Tracy works for Ulster Bank in Foreign Exchange. She is on the road constantly or she logs in from home. She is part of a team based around the country that monitor and consult on anything that crosses the border. Tracy bakes several times a week. Her mother and grandmother taught her. Her grandmother had magic hands and reigned supreme in the kitchen. Her fondest family memory is baking with her grandmother. Tracy always cooked a lot, baking came after. Cooking goes back to her childhood. She has been baking for about 5 years. She describes it as therapy and stress relief.



Tracy describes her baking as kid friendly, healthy and lunch boxable. She has a tendency to bore herself so always wants to move on with baking. Her children love novelty cakes so this culminated in a cake she made at Christmas complete with flashing lights. She is over novelty cakes now and likes more challenging bakes. Her greatest baking disaster was making chocolate pots for a friend’s birthday. She accidentally doused them with salt instead of sugar! She describes herself as cocky enough to think she can do anything but humble enough to accept that she can’t.