Brisbane<\/a>, and Penguin have denied the claims.<\/p>\nMaehashi argued McKenney\u2019s cake recipe had ingredients such as buttermilk, which made it identifiable as belonging to the American.<\/p>\n
In her YouTube video, Bellamy refers to her cake as \u201cthe best ever vanilla cake\u201d.<\/p>\n
The ingredients are minimally different. There is a 3g difference in the amount of flour used and 5g in butter measurements.<\/p>\n
McKenney\u2019s also calls for three large eggs and two extra egg whites, while Bellamy\u2019s instead asks for four eggs.<\/p>\n
McKenney\u2019s recipe also calls for 400g of granulated sugar, where as Bellamy\u2019s asks for a finer caster sugar, although the sugars can be substituted.<\/p>\n
The ingredients are listed in a similar order and both recipes contain the same three-word note \u2014 \u201cYes, a tablespoon!\u201d \u2014 next to the measurement for vanilla extract.<\/p>\nSally McKenney’s Best Vanilla Cake recipe on the left, compared with Brooke Bellamy’s Best Fluffy Vanilla Cake Recipe on the right.<\/span> Credit: Sally’s Baking\/<\/span>Brooki<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSally McKenney, the baker behind Sally\u2019s Baking Addiction, has joined Nagi Maehashi from RecipeTin Eats in accusing Brooke Bellamy of plagiarising recipes.<\/span> Credit: Sally\u2019s Baking Addiction<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cNagi … I\u2019m so grateful you let me know months ago that one of my recipes \u2014 the best vanilla cake I\u2019ve ever had, published by me in 2019 \u2014 was also plagiarised in this book and also appears on the author\u2019s YouTube channel,\u201d McKenney said in an Instagram story.<\/p>\n
\u201cOriginal recipe creators who put in the work to develop and test recipes deserve credit \u2014 especially in a best-selling cookbook.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bellamy has publicly denied the claims she lifted recipes for her book, and shared a 2016 photo of the caramel slice she says predates Maehashi\u2019s.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have great respect for Nagi and what she has done in recent years for cooks, content creators and cookbooks in Australia \u2014 especially as a fellow female entrepreneur,\u201d Bellamy said on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cRecipe development in today\u2019s world is enveloped in inspiration from other cooks, cookbook authors, food bloggers and content creators.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis willingness to share recipes and build on what has come before is what I love so much about baking and sharing recipes \u2014 the community that surrounds it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Brisbane baker said she has offered to remove both recipes flagged by Maehashi from future reprints to prevent further aggravation.<\/p>\nRecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi and Brooke Bellamy, who founded Brooki Bakehouse.<\/span> Credit: RecipeTin Eats\/Brooki Bakehouse<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIn a second statement on Wednesday, Bellamy said she does \u201cnot copy other\u2019s people\u2019s recipes\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike many bakers, I draw inspiration from the classics, but the creations you see at Brooki Bakehouse reflect my own experience, taste, and passion for baking, born of countless hours of my childhood spent in my home kitchen with Mum,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile baking has leeway for creativity, much of it is a precise science and is necessarily formulaic.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany recipes are bound to share common steps and measures: if they don\u2019t, they simply don\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Recipes Legal expert weighs in on baker battle<\/h2>\n Legal experts say recipes are unlikely to be protected by copyright laws.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s quite a high hurdle to jump to show that a recipe has enough originality to allege copyright infringement,\u201d Queensland University of Technology intellectual property expert Kylie Pappalardo told 7NEWS.<\/p>\n
\u201cCopyright is an area where these things come up all the time. There\u2019s always singers or somebody alleging someone has copied something from somebody else.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is copyright in creative expression, but not in facts, data, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n
The situation is complicated because the allegedly stolen recipes \u2014 caramel slice, baklava, and vanilla cake \u2014 are fairly common baked goods where there is little room for creativity, Pappalardo said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end of the day, there\u2019s probably only so many variations you could have that would still work and taste good,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is why I say that copyright is very thin, if it exists at all in these recipes.\u201d<\/p>\n
– With AAP<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\nRead More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recipes Plagiarism claims against a popular cooking queen over several sweet treats including a vanilla cake have sparked debate about how much ownership chefs and cooks have over recipes. Two authors \u2014 RecipeTin Eats\u2019 Nagi Maehashi, from Australia, and American Sally McKenney, author and blogger behind Sally\u2019s Baking Addiction \u2014 have accused Brooke Bellamy of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":844832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41407,143572],"tags":[131512],"class_list":{"0":"post-844831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-yes","8":"category-tablespoon","9":"tag-popular-recipes"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"recipes](\"http:\/\/7news.com.au\/static\/media\/right-red-arrow.92bca5db.svg\" "\\"recipes\\""){kind=icon}
<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n![\"recipes](\"https:\/\/images.7news.com.au\/publication\/C-18539644\/24fa433570729481611362ce0cb59b091d4e8d81.jpg?imwidth=650&impolicy=sevennews_v2\" "\\"recipes\\"")
<\/picture>![\"recipes](\"https:\/\/images.7news.com.au\/publication\/C-18539644\/ba44fcdf624c809f79180bfdbeb1d9e25b6af8d3.jpg?imwidth=650&impolicy=sevennews_v2\" "\\"recipes\\"")
<\/picture>![\"recipes](\"https:\/\/images.7news.com.au\/publication\/C-18539644\/cc0ec34649315685336f4b3f587435394e9afec9.jpg?imwidth=650&impolicy=sevennews_v2\" "\\"recipes\\"")
<\/picture>