Tom Cruise Gifts Mindy Kaling with His Annual Christmas Coconut Cake for the Holidays: 'IYKYK'
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12/20/2024 09:34 AM
The actress and writer loves being on the 'Top Gun' actor's gift list at the holidays
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Mindy Kaling and Tom CruiseMindy Kaling's Christmas just got a little sweeter thanks to Tom Cruise.
On Thursday, Dec. 19, the 45-year-old actress shared a photo of Cruise's signature Christmas coconut cake gift for the holidays.
Abbreviating the phrase "If you know, you know," her caption read: "Iykyk," alongside cake, eyes and tongue emojis.
In the photo, the A-list dessert sat on a gold plate, which was located inside a cardboard box.
Cruise, 62, is known for gifting many fellow A-list celebrities with the coconut cakes during the Christmas season.
On Friday, Dec. 13, Glen Powell, 36, revealed that he had received his annual Christmas treat.
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"The Cruise cake has arrived..." the Twisters star wrote above a photo that featured a card that read, "To Glen Powell, warmest wishes to you this Holiday Season Tom Cruise."
Powell, who starred in 2022's Top Gun: Maverick as Lt. Jake "Hangman" Seresin alongside Cruise's Navy officer Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, previously spoke about his love for the coconut cake.
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Glen Powell's cake from Tom CruiseSpeaking on The Jennifer Hudson Show in November 2022, he said, "It is the most delicious cake you've ever had."
"My friends that have tried it, they love it so much that they hit me up right around Dec. 1. 'Hey, has it arrived yet?'" the Anyone But You star continued.
"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."
He added, "It's usually demolished by the end of the night."
Other stars on Cruise's recipient list include Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons, Angela Bassett, Hayley Atwell, Rosie O'Donnell, Tom Hanks and more.
In 2023, Brooke Shields told PEOPLE that she didn't understand why she had been struck off the list for receiving the white chocolate coconut bundt cake from Doan's Bakery in Woodland Hills, California.
"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 said.
"It was from them and Suri, so it was the three of them, and then soon it was no Suri and no Katie [Holmes] and just Tom," she added in reference to Cruise's ex-wife and their 18-year-old daughter Suri. "Then it went from just Tom for a while, but not every holiday. And then the cake stopped."
Cruise's Christmas treat earned the number 33 spot on PEOPLE'S 50 Food Faves of 2023.
