This “Tom Cruise Cake,” inspired by the decadent dessert the movie star famously sends as a holiday gift, is as irresistible as it gets. The buttery sour cream pound cake features white chocolate chips and sweetened coconut flakes and is topped with a cream cheese frosting — what’s not to love?
What Is Tom Cruise Cake?
The famous “Tom Cruise Cake” is a white chocolate-coconut Bundt cake from Doan’s Bakery in California.
Every year, Tom Cruise gifts the decadent cake to his closest friends for the holidays. The cake achieved worldwide notoriety after one of those friends, a little known actor named Tom Hanks, said it’s one of his favorite foods of all time.
"This cake is so great, you can really only have it once a year,” according to Hanks. “This is just off-the-scale fantastic.”
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Tom Cruise Cake Ingredients
These are the simple ingredients you’ll need to make the famous Tom Cruise cake at home:
- For the cake: all-purpose flour, salt, baking powder, white sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla and coconut extracts, sour cream, sweetened flaked coconut, and white chocolate chips
- For the frosting: cream cheese, butter, vanilla extract, salt, powdered sugar, heavy cream, and sweetened flaked coconut
How to Make Tom Cruise Cake
You’ll find the full, step-by-step Tom Cruise Cake recipe below — but here are a few professional tips and tricks from test kitchen experts to keep in mind:
- Finely chop the white chocolate if you don’t want caramelized chunks of chocolate in the cake.
- Double the coconut extract if you want a stronger coconut flavor.
- This cake is usually shipped frozen to recipients from a bakery in LA. Refrigerate your cake overnight to help the frosting set and get a similar eating experience.
How to Store Tom Cruise Cake
Since Tom Cruise cake is topped with cream cheese frosting, it shouldn’t stay at room temperature for more than two hours. Cover the cake and store it in the refrigerator for up to one week.
Can You Freeze Tom Cruise Cake?
You can freeze unfrosted Tom Cruise Cake for up to three months. Simply wrap the cooled cake in at least one layer of storage wrap, then at least one layer of foil. Thaw in the fridge overnight and frost according to the recipe.
Editorial contributions by Corey Williams
