Food bloggers accuse influencer of plagiarizing their recipes for her bestselling cookbook

The hype around a bestselling cookbook about sweets has turned sour, as its author has been accused of recipe plagiarism. On April 29, Nagi Maehashi, food blogger behind RecipeTin Eats, accused fellow Aussie and influencer Brooke Bellamy of plagiarizing recipes in her book “Bake With Brooki.” And, in the time since, another baker has spoken out with their own accusation against Bellamy. Maehashi, made the allegations in a post on her website and on her Instagram, where she has 1.6 million followers, publishing side-by-side comparisons of her and Bellamy’s recipes for caramel slice and baklava. “Bake With Brooki” was published in October 2024 by Penguin Random House Australia and has sold 69,000 copies as of March, according to Nielsen BookScan. “To me, the similarities between the recipes in question are far too specific and detailed to be dismissed as coincidence,” Maehashi wrote on her website. “I’m speaking up because staying silent protects this kind of behaviour. Profiting from plagiarised recipes is unethical — even if it is not copyright infringement — and undermines the integrity of the entire book.” She explains in the post that in November 2024, a reader emailed her to say that they noticed “remarkable similarities” between
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