Brooke Bellamy from Brooki Bakehouse in Fortitude Valley, pictured when she was expanding across the country in Nespresso boutiques. Picture: Steve Pohlner
TikTok star baker Brooke Bellamy who has been hit with plagiarism claims linked to her cookbook has retreated to a multimillion-dollar home she bought off her success.
The former travel blogger who opened her Brisbane bakery in May 2022 after moving up from Tasmania, has been caught up in copycat allegations from two cooks over recipes in her Bake with Brooki cookbook.
Ms Bellamy, who denied the claims while admitting she has “drawn inspiration” from others, upsized her home thanks to the wild success of the Brooki Bakehouse business.
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Ms Bellamy has appeared on breakfast program Today with David Campbell and Sylvia Jeffreys. Picture: Nine
Brooke Bellamy at her Brisbane home the day after she was accused of copying content for her book.
She went from $1.385m three bedroom 1930s house in Brisbane’s Hawthorne – the suburb where Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart has her enormous waterfront home – to a significantly larger $3.6m five bed Queenslander in Camp Hill where she has now retreated.
She bought the property just over 10 months ago while the cookbook was in development, and a month later sold off her Hawthorne property for $1.5m – which was $115,000 more than she’d paid two years earlier during the pandemic.
Her 574sq m Camp Hill escape has five bedrooms, four car spaces, three bathrooms, and is on a 916sq m block, according to its publicly available listing.
It was described as a “sprawling, two level palatial home” aimed at contemporary families.
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Customers leave with products as Brooke Bellamy’s husband Justice Bellamy sits in the background at the Valley bakery Brooki. Picture: Steve Pohlner
The Queenslander has an enormous kitchen.
Among its biggest drawcards was its enormous kitchen, something that would have appealed no doubt to the cook in Ms Bellamy.
“Indulge all your culinary aspirations in this dream European kitchen, complete with custom cabinetry, exquisite granite benchtops, all crafted with precision and attention to detail” is how it was described.
The home has all the charm of well-maintained Queenslanders with soaring 13 foot ceilings, leadlight doors, ornate archways and VJ boards, with multiple living areas, a master bedroom with a working marble fireplace, landscaped grounds, a large pool and integrated study spaces to work on writing up things like new recipes.
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The home has very high ceilings.
The huge block allows for a big backyard and a pool zone.
The home has three bathrooms.
Ms Bellamy earlier told The Courier-Mail’s Qweekend magazine that she signed up to both cooking and renovating classes and learned from online videos, saying “if I want to do something, I’m going to find out how to do it.”
“I bought a townhouse and Googled how to rip up carpet and then I ripped up the carpet; and then how to sand floors and I sanded the floors. There are Bunnings videos you can watch for all of this and I have the same approach when it comes to business.”
There are multiple living areas in the 570sqm-plus house.
Perfect spot for afternoon tea.
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