Jessica Seinfeld just came out with a cookbook. As previously reported, she even visited the Oprah show in order to promote the book and thanked Oprah with some extravagant gifts! Seinfeld’s new “Deceptively Delicious,” about hiding healthy ingredients in foods children will eat, is already the best-selling book in the country, with print runs of 2.5 million through January. But now there seems to be some controversy surrounding Jessica’s best selling book. Chef and baby-products mogul Missy Chase Lapine came out in April with a book, “The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids’ Favorite Meals.” Lapine baked her spinach brownies with Al Roker on the “Today” show; Seinfeld shared her spinach brownies with Oprah on that show last week. People are wondering if Jessica ripped of Missy Chase Lapine’s recipes from her book. There are striking similarities between a lot of the recipes.

Lapine, who founded the Baby Spa natural products line, writes: “If you want to hide something in macaroni and cheese, you have to match the color of the dish. You could easily introduce white bean puree in the mac and cheese.”

Seinfeld and Lapine both have recipes for mashed potatoes with hidden cauliflower, grilled cheese with secret sweet potatoes, green eggs made with pureed baby spinach, and carrot-laced tacos.

Lapine’s rep was unable to comment until next week he said. Jessica’s publisher said “Jessica Seinfeld’s work is completely and entirely original and stems from her own personal experience cooking for her own three children and husband. We all know children will see healthy food and run in the other direction. We have full confidence in the originality of Jessica’s recipes. We have been involved in creating the content of this book for almost two years.”

A spokesman for Seinfeld said, “She admits she didn’t invent pureeing. But she never saw the [Lapine] book. And she worked really hard on hers.”

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