The Goddess and Grocer

Melbourne native Debbie Sharpe has spent years traveling the world catering for some of the music industry’s biggest stars, everyone from Paul McCartney and The Rolling Stones to Madonna and Beyonce. In 1990 she settled in Chicago and opened several critically acclaimed restaurants, and in 2004 she realized her dream of opening an Australian-style cafe, called The Goddess & Grocer (The Goddess, obviously, is Sharpe). Today there are three Chicago locations, as well as one inside O’Hare Airport.

Sharpe has some serious cake baking skills, and they’re on full display here. Her Rainbow Cake is the most Instagrammed cake in Chicago, her luscious Oreo Cake is loaded with Oreos and topped with even MORE Oreos, her carrot cake recipe has traveled with her across the globe, and don’t even get us started on her decadent Southern-style Red Velvet Cake!