{"id":2209282,"date":"2025-12-23T00:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2209282"},"modified":"2025-12-23T00:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:30:19","slug":"the-hollywood-reporter-tastes-and-debates-the-tom-cruise-christmas-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-hollywood-reporter-tastes-and-debates-the-tom-cruise-christmas-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hollywood Reporter Tastes and Debates the Tom Cruise Christmas Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">It is a holiday season tradition that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000129\/\">Tom Cruise<\/a> sends what is assumed to be his favorite cake to an untold number of luminaries in his Rolodex. It is also a tradition that we, the denizens of entertainment media, are compelled to discuss this cake and its lore.<\/p>\n<p>For the uninitiated: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm14545248\/\">Cruise<\/a> annually gifts his friends, associates and past co-stars the White Chocolate Coconut Bundt Cake from Doan\u2019s bakery in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills. This cake reportedly first came to the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0117060\/\">Mission Impossible<\/a> star in 2008 via then-wife <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005017\/\">Katie Holmes<\/a> while she working with the late <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000473\/\">Diane Keaton<\/a>, a Doan\u2019s fan, on the film <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0951216\/\">Mad Money<\/a>. He served it at a party or two and, at some point, started gifting it each December.<\/p>\n<p>The confection is commonly referred to as the \u201cTom Cruise Christmas Cake\u201d or just the \u201cTom Cruise Cake,\u201d and googling either string of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a holiday season tradition that Tom Cruise sends what is assumed to be his favorite cake to an untold number of luminaries in his Rolodex. It is also a tradition that we, the denizens of entertainment media, are compelled to discuss this cake and its lore. For the uninitiated: Cruise annually gifts his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2209283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2209282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Hollywood-Reporter-Tastes-and-Debates-the-Tom-Cruise-Christmas.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2209282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209284,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209282\/revisions\/2209284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2209283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}