Kirsten Dunst & Jesse Plemons

Dunst has been on the list of recipients since working with Cruise in 1994’s Interview with the Vampire.

“He gives me a cake every Christmas,” Dunst told Graham Norton during a 2016 appearance on his show. “We call it the Cruise cake at my house. It’s the best coconut cake I’ve ever had in my life.”

In a 2024 interview with Entertainment Tonight, she shared that her household never has to worry about running out of the coveted cake, because husband Jesse Plemons has also costarred with Cruise (in 2017’s American Made) and gets his own every Christmas now too.

“We double up on our cakes,” she shared, confirming that she’s still on the list.

Glen Powell

Someone who really celebrated his ascension to the Coconut Cake list was Top Gun: Maverick star Glen Powell, who hosts a party at his house when it arrives for grateful friends.

“It is the most delicious cake you’ve ever had,” Powell told Jennifer Hudson on her talk show. “My friends who have tried it, they love it so much that they hit me up right around December 1. ‘Hey, has it arrived yet?’ So now I have a party at my house where I’ll have the Cruise cake. It’s my ‘Cruise Cake Party.’ And I’ll invite people over to try a bite or two … [they] can’t get greedy. I really have to limit people. I can’t let them come back for seconds.”

Angela Bassett

In a discussion with Raymond Lee and Kelly Clarkson on the latter’s talk show, Angela Bassett and Lee agreed it’s one of the best cakes they’ve ever had (he even joked that he had it dipped in resin to preserve it forever).

Bassett is such a fan that, she said, “at our 25th anniversary, [husband Courtney B. Vance and I] had a three-tiered TCCC [Tom Cruise Coconut Cake].”

Hayley Atwell

It was hardly a Mission: Impossible for Hayley Atwell to be added to Cruise’s cake list. In 2023 she shared a shot of the beautifully wrapped cake with a card reading “warmest wishes to you this holiday season, Tom Cruise,” which she declared “delicious” on her Instagram Stories.

Rosie O’Donnell

Rosie O’Donnell and Tom Cruise have been friends for 25 years now (she famously used to gush about him on her talk show) and the actress doesn’t feel the holiday spirit until the delicious dessert shows up on her doorstep each year.

This past Christmas, O’Donnell proudly showed off the sweet delivery writing on Instagram, “My Tommy sent me a coconut cake!! I love that guy.”

Jay Ellis

Cruise’s cake is so renowned that his Top Gun costar, Jay Ellis flew it to Mexico last year.

“This year, my family, we all met in Mexico to spend Christmas together,” Ellis said while on The Jennifer Hudson Show. “And I was away filming a movie, and I was like, ‘Mom, can you freeze the cake and take it to Mexico?’ My whole family was like, ‘Yes, freeze the cake.'”

He continued, “Whatever it is — dry ice, ice cubes, whatever it is — we froze the cake,” he said. “We took it to Mexico, thawed it out and we had it on Christmas Day.”

(Assuming you don’t get added to Cruise’s list by Christmas, the Woodland Hills, Calif.-based bakery that makes the cake, Doan’s, will ship you one in dry ice via their Goldbelly page.)

Cary Elwes

You want a Tom Cruise coconut cake? As you wish! … is what we imagine Tom Cruise said to his Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning costar Elwes, who told PEOPLE the treat was his latest guilty pleasure. “We got sent a cake at Christmas from Tom Cruise. It was coconut from his favorite bakery,” he recalled. “Normally I don’t eat cake, but when it comes from Tom, it’s mission impossible not to.”

Tom Hanks

Also on the gift list? Tom Hanks, who described the cake as being “so great you can really only have it once a year.”

Apparently, the cake is a huge hit at his production company, Playtone, where his colleagues wait with bated breath, for it to be delivered each year.

“They start eyeing: What mail has come in? Is the big box coming in? Are we getting, what has essentially been called the Tom Cruise cake?” he said while on Mythical Kitchen’s YouTube series Last Meals.

And because the cake is such a treat, the company begins to savor each slice as the days go on. “Everybody starts slicing thinner and thinner slices,” Hanks joked.

“It’s a mathematical proof that if you just keep cutting everything in half, you will never run out of Tom Cruise cake.”

Elle & Dakota Fanning

After getting a special shout out from the Mission Impossible actor during last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Elle Fanning revealed Cruise has shown her and sister Dakota so much love over the years.

Cruise and Dakota starred in War of the Worlds together back in 2005.

Elle told PEOPLE that Cruise “made it a point to kind of stay in [Dakota’s] life … which was so kind.”

She continued, “And he sends her a birthday gift every single year still. We get the coconut cake that he sends.”

Jon Hamm

Though Jon Hamm starred in Top Gun: Maverick with Cruise, he was a receiver of the coconut bundt cake long before then.

“I’m on the list. I’m very proud to be on the list,” Hamm told Dish Nation. “I was on the list pre-Maverick so I’m very happy. I predate the movie, so somehow I got on that list.”

Miles Teller

Much like the team at Tom Hanks’ production company, Miles Teller couldn’t fathom the thought of finishing the cake in its entirety when he got it for his birthday.

“The coconut cake is very good,” he admitted to Dish Nation during the Hollywood premiere of the Top Gun last year.

“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

Also on the preservation train is Cobie Smulders, who freezes her holiday gift so it lasts for months.

“It’s so good. I leave it in my freezer and it lasts until like March,” she told Jimmy Fallon (who also bragged about being on “the list”). “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

This famous cake is so much of a hot item, sometimes it doesn’t even get to its intended recipient, as Graham Norton found out.

While prepping for an episode in which Renée Zellweger appeared, Norton found out Cruise had sent the cake to his office for years — he just never received it.

“I didn’t know we were on the Tom Cruise Cake List ’til today!” he told the Jerry Maguire actress, while asking her about her own receipt of the treat.

“I was talking about you being on the cake list and somebody said ‘Oh, yeah, we get a cake from Tom every year,’ and I went, ‘Do we? I’ve never seen the bloody cake.'”

Turns out, it was “the nicest cake” someone in Norton’s crew had ever had…and didn’t last long enough to make it to the host himself!

Brooke Shields

Someone who received the cake for a while — and would like to again — is Brooke Shields.

“I was on the list for a while. I had a good 10-year run, and I got the coconut cake every year, which I was very happy [about],” she told PEOPLE recently, adding with a laugh, “I want to get back on that cake list. It’s the best cake. Tom, I need to be back on the cake list!”