Ella Goutos

I really love Brooki but something is off with this book. When the book was up on Amazon for pre-order, there was a preview of the book with a couple of recipes visible. So I made the red velvet cookies and they were delicious. Then, also before the book came out, I made her recipe for chocolate cake that was filmed and posted on YouTube. She said that the recipe would also be in the book. After the book came out, I noticed the chocolate cake recipe was different. I was confused. I made the cake and it came out so dry and dense that I threw it away. I commented on the YouTube video of the chocolate cake recipe and she said she decided to change the recipe in the book. I was so confused by this as the chocolate cake recipe on YouTube was way better. The one in the book was a flop. I then made a cookie recipe from the book (I think it was the choc chip, I don’t remember) and the dough was crumbly. Also a flop. I then noticed that in the physical book, the red velvet cookie recipe stated that one adds cream cheese frosting in the cookies. But in the recipe in the book preview on Amazon, it was stated that just plain cream cheese was used as the filling. When looking at some of the recipes in the book, they look so off, and when you make the recipes, the batter/dough just doesn’t come together. I honestly thought I was caught in a prank 😂 for what it’s worth, I’m a qualified chef/pastry chef and I’ve baked a lot! Lastly, on Instagram she shares that the icing ratio she uses for the cakes is double butter to icing sugar. But in the book it’s totally different. I don’t think these are the recipes she actually uses in her bakery. Anyway, I don’t know what happened and I’m totally confused by this book and this entire situation (plagiarism and her giving us recipes that she supposedly uses in her bakery but are a total flop). I don’t really recommend this book which I feel bad saying, but I don’t want people to spend money on the book and the ingredients to just throw them away. I hope she reviews the recipes and offers some kind of replacement book, I highly doubt it’ll come to that though.