{"id":176122,"date":"2025-12-09T22:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/176122\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T22:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:10:08","slug":"bakery-owner-behind-tom-cruises-viral-white-chocolate-coconut-bundt-cake-reveals-he-has-never-met-the-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/176122\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakery Owner Behind Tom Cruise\u2019s Viral White Chocolate Coconut Bundt Cake Reveals He Has Never Met the Actor"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s no secret that one of the most sought-after gifts in Hollywood is one of Tom Cruise\u2019s<\/a> famous White Chocolate Coconut Bundt Cake \u2014 but who are the bakers behind the delicious treat?<\/p>\n

As it turns out, Cruise, 63, enlists the services of Doan\u2019s Bakery in Woodland Hills, California \u2014 and he\u2019s worked with them ever since the late Diane Keaton first introduced them to his ex-wife Katie Holmes in 2008.<\/p>\n

The Top Gun: Maverick star\u2019s company, Cruise\/Wagner Productions, provides a list of recipients to the family owned business, which then gets to work on baking the cakes.<\/p>\n

Eric Doan, the owner, told the Daily Mail<\/a> that he begins working on the cakes, which are the same every year, \u201ca couple weeks ahead\u201d of Christmas and typically makes \u201ca couple hundred cakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI box them specifically in a gift box for them, and then they [Cruise\/Wagner Productions] dress them up,\u201d he told the outlet. \u201cHe does the large size and then a medium size, and then he does some smaller token ones, I think for employees, or who knows?\u201d<\/p>\n

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According to People<\/a>, stars including Glen Powell, Miles Teller and Rose O\u2019Donnell have been lucky recipients. However, the list has been known to change from year to year, something Doan said can result in major disappointment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do get a lot of people who at one time received a cake because they\u2019d worked on a movie or in some capacity [with Cruise], and then they don\u2019t get one anymore,\u201d he explained. \u201cPeople come in and say, \u2018Oh, we used to get it every year. Now we don\u2019t because we\u2019re not doing the [movie] anymore.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

And while Doan has previously met Holmes, 46, he revealed he hasn\u2019t actually met Cruise yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to meet him someday. I mean, when my mom was dying with cancer a couple years ago, he actually called her, like a week before she passed,\u201d he shared with the publication. \u201cHonestly, what a mensch. It was just pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

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