Maxine Sharf

Instagram Star

Birthday May 8, 1992

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace United States

Age 34 years old

#365,565 Most Popular

About

Cooking content creator known for her healthy, easy recipes, many of which she learned from her mother, for her 3.1 million Instagram followers. She also shares recipes with her 120,000 YouTube subscribers and released her debut cookbook, Maxi's Kitchen, in March 2026.

Before fame

She was posting recipe videos to TikTok by September 2019, when she shared baked banana donuts.

Trivia

One of her most-viewed TikTok videos, a January 2024 clip of her cutting open an unusual lemon from her lemon tree, earned more than 50 million views. She has appeared on the TODAY show, where she shared the origin of her fried rice recipe.

Family life

She married Doug Schuessler at a château in Provence, France, in July 2022, and has featured her mother in her cooking videos.

Associated with

She made a collaborative recipe video with blogger Nicole Keshishian Modic, featuring a recipe from her cookbook.