Brooki Bakehouse’s Brooke Bellamy returns to Instagram after Nagi Maehashi accuses her of plagiarising recipes

Cookie queen Brooke Bellamy has returned to Instagram days after fellow internet cooking sensation Nagi Maehashi accused her of copying her recipes.

The under pressure founder of the viral dessert business, Brooki Bakehouse, thanked customers on her company account for their support amid the plagiarism claims.

“We’re very grateful for our local community showing up for us this week, Brisbane you’ve been incredible since day one. from all of us here at Brooki.”

The statement comes after Bellamy was forced to deny claims she infringed RecipeTin Eats founder Maehashi’s copyright by “word-for-word” taking two of her recipes, including caramel slice, and using them in her latest best-selling book, Bake with Brooki.

Maehashi also alleged that Bellamy had taken recipes from other authors: “including (from) a very well known, beloved cookbook author where the similarities are so extensive, dismissing it as a coincidence would be absurd.”

Maehashi doubled down on her claims in another Instagram post on Thursday that showed a side-by-side comparison of her caramel slice and Bellamy’s.

Another food blogger also went public to allege Bellamy had stolen one of her recipes, too.

US food blogger Sally McKenney, who founded Sally’s Baking Addiction, claimed Bellamy had taken her best vanilla cake recipe.

Bellamy, who has more than a million followers online, has denied plagiarising any recipes.

She said she had been making the recipes at the centre of Maehashi’s allegations — for caramel slice and baklava — for years before Maehashi published her takes on the favourites.

“I did not plagiarise any recipes in my book which consists of 100 recipes I have created over many years, since falling in love with baking as a child and growing up baking with my mum in our home kitchen.

She said she had offered to remove both of Maehashi’s recipes from future reprints to prevent “further aggravation”.