Receptess founder Nagi Maehashi takes a cryptic wipe against rival Brooke Bellamy at Book Awards in Melbourne after cookbook ‘Plagiaat’ scandal

Celebrity Cook Nagi Maehashi has taken a cryptic wipe to rival Brooke Bellamy.

The couple is currently involved in a plagiarism conflicts after the founder of the Recipietin eats. Accused Brooke of copying recipes for her Tome Bake with Brooki.

Prior to her victory over the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) of 2025, Nagi shared a short clip in which she gave her excitement about her nomination in the Illustrated Book of the Year category.

“Hello, it’s Nagi here from receptess published by Pan McMillan,” she started the clip.

‘I am very enthusiastic to be with the Australian Book Industry Awards from 2025. I have been nominated! ‘She added before she excited a copy of her book receptin Eats: Tonight held up: tonight.

Then she seemed to take a subtle wipe at Brooke, who was a no-show during the event despite the fact that he was nominated for the same price.

“It’s so exciting. I am very nervous, but also very happy to be here among all this incredible talent, “she said.

“What an honor to be on the shortlist and to have a great evening.”

Nagi ran away from Abias, held on Melbourne On Wednesday, with the prize for Illustrated Book of the Year for her cookbook receptin Eats: Tonight.

A simple message on the Abia Instagram page was: “The winner of the Australian Book Industry Awards (Abia) Illustrated Book of the year is: reception Eats: Tonight (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan) Congratulations!”

The Book Awards Night is the newest chapter in the feud between the two chef chefs.

Nagi led a fire storm last week when she claimed the former travel blogger baker Copied her caramelplice and baklava recipes.

The founder of the receptess Eats made the first accusation on April 29 and shared a long -term blog post on her website and a series of slides for her Instagram account.

Nagi said that for the first time she expressed concern about Penguin Publishing in December after a reader marked her highlighted ‘remarkable similarities’ between her caramel Slice recipe and the version in the newly released Bake with Brooki.

‘I put a lot of effort into my recipes. And I share them on my website for everyone to use for free, “Maehashi wrote.

‘To see them plagiarism (in my opinion) and used in a book for winning, without credit, not only feels unfair. It feels like a blatant exploitation of my work.

“For me, the similarities between the recipes in question are so specific and detailed that mentioning this makes a chance feels unfair.”

Nagi added that profities of plagued recipes were ‘unethical’.

“It’s a slap in the face for every author who applies the hard work to make original content instead of cutting the corners,” she wrote.

She also claimed that Brooke plagiarism, which she did not mention.

Hours after the allegations surfaced for the first time, the American Baker Sally McKenney from Sally’s Baking Addiction Fame On Instagram claimed that Brooke had also copied her vanilla cake recipe.

Two days later, Nagi claimed that Brooke may have copied the recipe for Portuguese cake from Late Bill Granger from 2006 ‘virtually word by word’.

“It is so flagrant to me that the formulation in the method part of the recipe is copied almost precisely,” Nagi told East Coast Media.

“For me it is the largest and strongest example of plagiarism that I have seen by this author.”

Both Penguin and Brooke denied the allegations, where the baker said she had made and sold her recipes before Nagis were published.

“I have no recipes in my book plagiarism that consists of 100 recipes that I have made for many years,” said Bellamy.

‘In 2016 I opened my first bakery. I make my recipes and have been selling them commercially since October 2016. ‘

Brooke added that she was deeply sad about the allegations and because she was attacked online by social media trolls.

“I don’t copy the recipes from other people,” she said.

“Like many bakers, I draw inspiration from the classics, but the creations you see (her Brisbane Bakery) Brooki Bakehouse reflects my own experience, taste and passion for bins, born from countless hours of my childhood spent in my home kitchen with mother.”

While the Brisbane Baker stated that she did not copy the recipes, she “immediately offered to remove both from future reprints to prevent further worsening.”

Brooke has since been placed in her house in Brisbane and has issued a plea for privacy when she concluded her personal Instagram account to the public after wild attacks by trolls.

“The last 24 hours have been extremely overwhelming,” she said in a statement last week.

‘I had media outside my house and company and I attacked online. It has been deeply painful for my colleagues and my young family.

‘Although baking has room for creativity, much of it is a precise science and it is necessarily formal.

‘Many recipes will certainly share common steps and measures: if they don’t, they just don’t work.

“My priority at the moment is to guarantee the well -being of the fantastic team of Brooki Bakehouse and that of my family.”

Nagi also begged users, fans and supporters of social media to leave Bellamy alone in a video that is shared on Instagram.

“Please stop trolling,” said Maehashi.

‘Now I know that I have made serious allegations, but this does not justify the personal attacks I have seen online against Brooke Bellamy.

‘I don’t support it and I ask you to stop. I know that this is just a whole, very small percentage of people online. I know that most people are good, fun, normal people.

“Share your opinion, have heated debates, support Brooki, support me, disagree with both of us, think we are pathetic, whatever you want, but keep it respectful, no trolls, no hateful comments.”

Nagi said that Penguin denied the allegations and said through lawyers: ‘Our client rejects the allegations of your client respectfully and confirms that the recipes in [Bake with Brooki] were Written by Brooke Bellamy. ‘

Brooke saw the ugly food row as an ambassador for the government’s academy for enterprising girls.

In the meantime, Nagi was also confronted with criticism from the famous chef Luke Mangan who said she had not credited him well for a recipe she used in one of her cookbooks.

Regeein Eats has 1.5 million followers on Instagram and Maehashi has also written award -winning cookbook dinner and tonight.

Brooke soon became a global sensation after sharing videos on Tiktok, who receive millions of views every day.

She is best known for her cookies and has opened pop-up stores in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.