US EditionInfluencer Brooke Bellamy Breaks Silence on Claims She Plagiarized Cookbook
- On April 29, 2025, Nagi Maehashi accused Brooke Bellamy of plagiarising two recipes in Bellamy's 2024 cookbook Bake with Brooki, published by Penguin Random House Australia.
- Maehashi's claim arose after a reader alerted her to remarkable similarities between Bellamy's caramel slice and baklava recipes and her own earlier published versions.
- Bellamy, a baker and social media influencer with two million TikTok followers, denied plagiarism, stating she created the book's 100 recipes over many years and began selling them commercially in 2016.
- Maehashi said the recipe similarities showed “precision and detail” too strong for coincidence and called profiting from plagiarised recipes unethical, while Penguin lawyers rejected the claims and confirmed Bellamy authored all recipes.
- Bellamy offered to remove the disputed recipes from future printings to prevent aggravation, but the dispute highlights ongoing uncertainty about recipe copyright and plagiarism boundaries.
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