I attempted the well-known $140 cake that Tom Cruise items to his celeb buddies each vacation season

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I attempted the well-known “Tom Cruise Cake,” which the actor sends to a choose group each Christmas.
Recipients have included Glen Powell, Jon Hamm, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle and Dakota Fanning.
The dessert is a white chocolate bundt cake from Doan’s Bakery in Los Angeles.

‘Twas the weeks earlier than Christmas, when all by Hollywood, each celeb was stirring, even Glen Powell.

Their assistants and publicists checked the mail with care, in hopes that the well-known “Tom Cruise Cake” would quickly be there.

We might have taken some inventive liberties with the enduring “A Go to from St. Nicholas” poem, however there isn’t any denying that Cruise’s annual reward has turn out to be the stuff of legends.

Yearly, the “Mission: Not possible” star sends white chocolate coconut bundt muffins from Doan’s Bakery in Los Angeles to a choose group of buddies and former costars. It is a listing that each celeb needs to be on.

For these not on the listing or native to LA, the well-known cake can also be out there on Goldbelly for $140. In fact, I needed to order one for the vacations to see what all of the hype was about.

Katie Holmes launched Tom Cruise to his favourite Christmas reward.

I attempted the well-known $140 cake that Tom Cruise items to his celeb buddies each vacation season — Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes cut up in 2012.

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Karen Doan, the self-taught baker behind the well-known cake, revealed throughout a 2021 interview with Spectrum Information 1 that Holmes, who was married to Cruise from 2006 to 2012, had discovered about Doan’s Bakery from Diane Keaton whereas they had been engaged on the 2008 movie “Mad Cash.”

“When Tom and Katie had a giant social gathering at their new house in Beverly Hills, we did all of the muffins,” Doan stated. “They liked it.”

Cruise and Holmes’ marriage did not final, however his relationship with Doan’s Bakery has continued for over a decade.

“This has turn out to be so widespread that I might say when the cellphone rings, 80% of the individuals, that is what they need,” Doan stated concerning the coconut cake in 2021.

The “Tom Cruise Cake,” because it’s since been nicknamed, has turn out to be a standing image in Hollywood.

Cruise all the time sends the cake to his former costars, together with Glen Powell and Tom Hanks.

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Whether or not it is a bouquet of flowers from Beyoncé or some Meghan Markle marmalade, the A-list loves to indicate off their unique items on Instagram. Celebrities, they’re similar to us!

The “Tom Cruise Cake” is not any totally different. Stars like Mindy Kaling and Glen Powell have posted photos of their muffins, and the well-known dessert is a frequent dialogue on the discuss present circuit. Movie star gossip blogs even publish lists detailing which celebrities — together with Jon Hamm, the Fanning sisters, and Angela Bassett — make the minimize yearly.

The cake itself has additionally received excessive reward. Kirsten Dunst informed Graham Norton in 2016 that it was the “finest coconut cake I’ve ever had in my life,” and Tom Hanks referred to as it “off-the-scale implausible” throughout a 2023 video for Legendary Kitchen. The actor loves the cake a lot that he stated it will be one of many dishes he’d need for his final meal on earth.

I do not suppose I’ve ever tried a cake with a lot hype. Clearly, it had loads to reside as much as.

My cake arrived two days after I ordered it on Goldbelly.

Tom Cruise cake in its shipping box — The cake was individually wrapped in plastic and tied with a inexperienced bow.

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The cake was individually wrapped in plastic and tied with a inexperienced bow.

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I ordered the cake on December 18 and chosen two-day transport, which was an extra $35. There have been additionally choices for five-day supply ($20) and six-day supply (free). Sadly, on account of excessive demand, you now want to affix a waitlist for the cake on Goldbelly, though these in LA can nonetheless buy it from Doan’s Bakery for the less expensive value of $66.

The dessert, which ships nationwide, was delivered frozen with dry ice. The cake itself was individually wrapped in plastic, topped with a bright-green bow, and tucked inside a Doan’s Bakery field.

I unwrapped the cake and caught it within the fridge to defrost in a single day.

Tom Cruise cake unwrapped — The cake from Doan’s Bakery serves 12 to 16 individuals.

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The cake from Doan’s Bakery serves 12 to 16 individuals.

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The hefty 10-inch cake — which serves 12-16 individuals and weighs 3 kilos — can final within the fridge for as much as 5 days or within the freezer for 4 months.

Cobie Smulders informed Jimmy Fallon in 2019 that she’ll “slowly chip away” on the dessert till March.

When my household and I first tried the cake, it was nonetheless fairly frozen.

Tom Cruise cake sliced — Slicing into the bundt cake.

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Slicing into the bundt cake.

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With its beneficiant dusting of coconut flakes, the bundt cake makes for an angelic and festive centerpiece. However, at first, it was exhausting to understand the flavour.

That is already a dense and buttery cake, and it hadn’t totally defrosted after 24 hours within the fridge. Paired with the cream cheese frosting, the feel was actually heavy. My mother and father and I weren’t tremendous impressed, however we determined to carry our opinion and provides the cake one other day to totally defrost.

With every passing day, we appreciated the cake increasingly.

A slice of Tom Cruise cake — A slice of the white chocolate bundt cake.

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A slice of the white chocolate bundt cake.

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That is positively a maximalist cake — one thing Doan stated was all the time a part of her ethos.

“I do not skimp on substances,” she stated throughout the Spectrum Information 1 section in 2021. “Everybody says, ‘Much less is extra, Karen,’ as a result of I wish to put extra white chips. I wish to put extra coconut!”

I am glad she did not pay attention when she created this cake recipe, particularly when it got here to the white chocolate chunks. Their texture provides only a trace of scrumptious crunch to the cake, and there is a heat to the flavour that helps minimize by the extreme punch of sweetness. The toasted flakes are additionally a pleasant contact, including depth with out giving every chew an amazing coconut taste.

Once I wakened for breakfast one morning this week, I discovered myself craving one other slice of the cake. It had surprisingly grown on me. My mother and father agreed, though they don’t seem to be satisfied it is definitely worth the value.

“I might eat it once more, if somebody despatched it as a present,” my dad stated.

You heard him, Tom!

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