Brooki Bakehouse owner Brooke Bellamy announces her pregnancy: 'Baby three is baking'

Brooke Bellamy is pregnant with her third child with husband Justice Bellamy. 

The owner of Brooki Bakehouse looked pleased as punch when she took to Instagram to announce the news on Thursday morning. 

The Queensland-based baker was all smiles as she lifted her pink hoodie and showed off her growing baby bump for her delighted fans. 

She also shared a picture from one of her check ups that had a visible sonogram on a TV screen, and another frame of one of her children poking her growing belly. 

Brooke captioned the images with a culinary pun, writing, 'Baby three is baking'.

She went on to reveal her bundle of joy was 'due this Christmas'. 'What a gift!' she added. 

In April 2025, RecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi made headlines when she accused Brooke of plagiarising her caramel slice and baklava recipes for use in her best-selling cookbook Bake with Brooki. 

The claims sparked weeks of online scrutiny, with Brooke, who was pregnant at the time, forced to issue a series of statements defending her work.

In a video posted to her followers, Brooke admitted that her recipes were not wholly original - recipes almost never are - but insisted that they were still personal.

'While all of these recipes are personal to me, I cannot say that I have invented the cookies, cupcakes, brownies or cakes in the recipe book. They are all inspired from somewhere and someone before me,' she said.

She also revealed her biggest inspiration had always been close to home. 

'I have been so inspired by bakeries and bakers the world over but the biggest inspiration in my life is my mum, because I learnt to cook and bake with her in the kitchen growing up.'

Brooke rejected the suggestion that her work was stolen, pointing out that many recipes inevitably share similarities. 

'While baking has leeway for creativity, much of it is a precise science and is necessarily formulaic,' she said. 

'Many recipes are bound to share common steps and measures: if they don't, they simply don't work.'

Maehashi is not the only baker to have levelled plagiarism claims against Bellamy.

Hours after Maehashi went public with her claims, American baker and author Sally McKenny claimed her own vanilla cake recipe had been stolen for use in the cookbook and on Bellamy's YouTube channel.

'Original recipe creators who put in the work to develop and test recipes deserve credit - especially in a best-selling cookbook,' McKenny wrote.

Brooke already shares two children with husband Justice.

Her first daughter Colette Marie was born in September 2024.