Okay, so obviously, we know that Tom Cruise is known for his movies, his Hollywood stunts, and, erm, some other things. But there’s another thing he’s known for: that dang coconut cake that so many celebrities get from him every year.
If you need a refresher: he sends his former co-stars and pals a famous white chocolate coconut bundt cake from family-owned Doan’s Bakery in Woodland Hills, Calif.
It’s moist, it’s mouth-watering and it has cream cheese frosting and toasted coconut flakes. And it’s known as the “Tom Cruise Cake” and the “Tom Cruise Christmas Cake.”
Fun fact: his ex-wife Katie Holmes is actually the one that introduced him to the cake, and now, it’s become synonymous to him.
And every year, so, so many celebs get the cake as a gift from him. From the Fanning sisters to Kirsten Dunst, see all the stars who get the cake.
Below, check out which A-listers have talked about receiving Cruise’s coveted coconut cake:
Victoria Canal
Singer Victoria Canal got the cake for the first time in 2024, posting about it on Instagram on Dec 10. In the video, she said it’s “one of the best cakes I’ve ever had.” She added, “It’s so rich, like Tom Cruise. Let it be known, the Tom Cruise cake is a 10 out of 10.”
Canal and Cruise were at the center of dating rumors in 2024, which she denied, telling everyone that they’re just good pals.
Dakota Fanning
After starring together in War of the Worlds together back in 2005, Dakota solidified a place in Cruise’s coconut cake list (and a place where he surprises her with a gift every year). And she’s not the only one in the Fanning family to do so…
Elle Fanning
Elle Fanning also gets a coconut cake! She previously told People that Cruise “made it a point to kind of stay in [Dakota’s] life … which was so kind. And he sends her a birthday gift every single year still. We get the coconut cake that he sends.”
Rosie O’Donnell
Rosie O’Donnell and Cruise have been pals for over 25 years, and every year, she gushes about the coconut cake he sends her on Instagram.
Glen Powell
Ever since they starred together on Top Gun: Maverick, Glen Powell has gotten a coconut cake from Cruise! He even posted about it on Dec 2023, per New York Post.
Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Dunst and Cruise have known each other since working together on the 1994 classic Interview with the Vampire. They’ve remained close since then and back in 2016, she told Graham Norton: “He gives me a cake every Christmas. We call it the Cruise cake at my house. It’s the best coconut cake I’ve ever had in my life.”
Jesse Plemons
Along with that, Kirsten Dunst’s husband Jesse Plemons also gets a cake since he and Cruise co-starred in American Made. In a 2024 interview with Entertainment Tonight, Dunst revealed they both get cakes every year, “We double up on our cakes.”
Rebecca Ferguson
A while ago, Rebecca Ferguson shared on her Instagram story that she got the cake, via X. She’s still on the list, but back in 2023, she said on Loose Women via Female First that she had to call him to let him know she couldn’t eat one that year, saying, “He’s a feeder! It was a coconut cake filled with everything unhealthy, to the point where I actually called his assistant and said ‘I don’t want it this year, because I need to not eat it!'”
Michael Bay
Per Comics Sands, Michael Bay gets the cake every year too for 20+ years!
Renee Zellweger
Renée Zellweger and Cruise co-starred together in the film Jerry Maguire, in 1996, and she revealed on the Graham Norton Show in 2019 that she gets the cake every year.
Henry Cavill
During a July 2018 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Cruise’s former Mission: Impossible – Fallout co-star Henry Cavill talked about how he receives the cake too, saying, “It’s the most luxurious, unhealthy cake. I then ate the whole thing.”
Tom Hanks
That’s right, Tom Hanks also gets the cake, and he once said it’s “so great you can really only have it once a year.” He told Mythical Kitchen’s YouTube series Last Meals that even his colleagues at his production company, Playtone, are obsessed with it.
Angela Bassett
Angela Bassett has gotten the cake every year since 2018, and even raved about it on The Kelly Clarkson Show.
Hayley Atwell
Mission: Impossible co-star Hayley Atwell has also gotten the cake quite a few times, calling it “delicious” on her Instagram Stories per People.
Jay Ellis
Jay Ellis also gets the cake, and loves it so much that he took it to Mexico so he and his family could enjoy it on Christmas, saying on The Jennifer Hudson Show, “We took it to Mexico, thawed it out and we had it on Christmas Day.”
Cary Elwes
“We got sent a cake at Christmas from Tom Cruise. It was coconut from his favorite bakery,” Cary Elwes said to People after he and Cruise starred together in the 1990 film Days of Thunder. “Normally I don’t eat cake, but when it comes from Tom, it’s mission impossible not to.”
Jon Hamm
Fun fact: Jon Hamm was on the coconut cake list even before he and Cruise starred together in Top Gun: Maverick back in 2022.
Miles Teller
“The coconut cake is very good,” Miles Teller said to Dish Nation about his co-star’s cake list. “I have one in my fridge right now he sent for my birthday in February. So what month are we in? May? I still have it, so that that let’s you know how good it is.”
Cobie Smulders
Back in 2016, Cobie Smulders and Cruise starred together in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. Since then, she’s gotten the cake. She told Jimmy Fallon, “It’s so good. I leave it in my freezer and it lasts until like March. I just slowly chip away at this thing. It’s so good, I don’t know why. I’m not even a big sweets person, but it’s so good.”
Graham Norton
Back in 2019, Graham Norton revealed that he’s been on the list for years, but had no idea because it was sent to his office and not his house.
Jimmy Fallon
During the same interview with Cobie Smulders, Jimmy Fallon revealed he’s also on the list!
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