Brooke Bellamy messages first video since plagiarism claims

Influencer Baker Brooke Bellamy said her recipes “inspired by somewhere or someone” in her first video blog since cookbook author Nagi Maehashi accused her of plagiarism.

“Since I opened my bakery three years ago and shares my life online, I have never had such a long break between videos,” said the founder of Brooki Bakehouse in the Instagram Reel.

Maehashi claimed that Bellamy’s cookbook two of her recipes plagiarism, which Bellamy has denied.

These were recipes for Caramel Slice and Baklava, where Maehashi went to her social media by placing a side-on-side screenshots of the ingredients, quantities and instructions from the two books.

Almost a month later, Bellamy said in a video blog posted on the Instagram account of Brooki Bakehouse that she did not invent the recipes.

“Although all these recipes are personally for me, I can’t say that I invented the cookies, cupcakes, brownies or cakes in the recipe book,” Bellamy said.

“I have never subscribed to be part of a story that two women travel against each other, especially in the same industry.

“I think there is room for everyone, especially more women in business.”

Maehashi said that the similarities between the recipes came on plagiarism, but that lawyers for Penguin Random House Australia, which published Bellamy’s book, rejected her claim and said all the recipes were written by Bellamy.

Maehashi placed that she had not made the statement “light” and knew that “it would open the locks for haters”.

Bellamy was dropped as an ambassador for a program funded by the government to teach girls “to think” as an entrepreneur “after the allegations were made.

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