Two recipe authors accuse Tiktok influencer Brooke Bellamy of copying the recipe.

Nagi Maehashi, Australia founder of Australian food website Copetin Eats, said Ms. Bellamy’s recipe contains recipes that have “similarity to my word”.

Ms. Bellamy, who owns the popular Brooki Bakehouse, rejected her charges, whose book contains "100 recipes I've created over the years." She claimed that one of them was created before Ms. Mehasi was published.

Hours after Ms. Mehasi filed the charges, American writer Sally McKenney also accused Ms. Bellamy of stealing her vanilla cake recipe.

Ms. Mehassi said readers pointed out the “significant similarities” between what she called the caramel sliced ​​recipe and Ms. Bellamy’s best-selling recipe and Brooke’s.

She said she also later discovered similarities between her Baclaf recipe and Ms. Bellamy and provided side-by-side comparisons in a statement about recipe Eats.

Ms. Maehashi is the author of two recipes and her website, which she started in 2014 and has attracted 45 million page views per month.

Ms. Bellamy is the owner of three Brooki Bakehouse branches in Queensland, founded in 2022.

Ms Mehasi said she had contacted Ms Bellamy's publisher Penguin Random House Australia, adding that they "bringed lawyers and resorted to my legal intimidation requests".

She added: "It feels like a blatant exploitation of my work. It's not only unfair to see them steal and use in books for profit, without permission, without credibility."

Ms. Mehasi retained her legal counsel and wrote to Ms. Bellamy and the Penguin.

Brooki Bake was published in October 2024 and has since sold a copy of $4.6 million (£2.1 million; $2.9).

Both Penguin and Ms. Bellamy strongly denied the allegations, and the publisher responded to Ms. Mehasi, confirming that “the recipes in the BWB book were written by Brooke Bellamy”.

Despite nothing wrong, Ms. Bellamy said she offered to reprint the recipe in the future “to prevent further aggravation” and conveyed “rapid” to Ms. Mehasi.

She added that she "respected Najib very much" but stuck with her recipes in a series of Instagram stories.

“Recipe development in today’s world is surrounded by inspiration from other chefs, recipe authors, food bloggers and content creators,” she said.

Ms. Maehashi and Ms. Bellamy’s recipes were both shortlisted for this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards.

Ms. McKenney, the author of Sally's baking addiction website, accused Ms. Bellamy of copying her vanilla cake recipe, which is included in Ms. Bellamy's recipe and YouTube channel.

"The original receiving creators should get credit for developing and testing recipes - especially among bestsellers," Ms. McKenney wrote on Instagram.