CHICAGO (WLS) -- Brown Sugar Bakery is a wildly popular destination on the Far South Side that's Building A Better Chicago. It even has a starring role in the Marvel Disney+ series "Ironheart."

Founder Stephanie Hart told ABC7 how "Life Is Sweeter" in Greater Grand Crossing with her homemade confections that she calls "dangerously delicious."

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Hart spoke about how she began baking.

"I started baking in my 40s at home, and let's just tell the truth and shame the devil, it wasn't good, there were many, many bad cakes," Hart said. "When I'd be coming to my daughter's ballet, the ballet moms would try my cake, they'd say 'Oh no, we just ate.'"

Hart grew up in Downers Grove and ran a tech company with her husband before creating her

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