Tom Cruise Gifts Mindy Kaling with His Annual Christmas Coconut Cake for the Holidays: 'IYKYK'

Mar. 15, 2025

Mindy Kaling and Tom Cruise.Photo:Chad Salvador/Variety via Getty; Bryan Bedder/Getty

Chad Salvador/Variety via Getty; Bryan Bedder/Getty

Mindy Kaling’s Christmas just got a little sweeter thanks toTom 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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Mindy Kaling gifted with Tom Cruise’s coconut cake for the holidays.Mindy Kaling/Instagram

Mindy Kaling/Instagram

“The Cruise cake has arrived…” theTwistersstar 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’sTop Gun: Maverickas 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 Cruise.Glen Powell/Instagram

Glen Powell/Instagram

Speaking onThe Jennifer Hudson Showin 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?'" theAnyone But Youstar 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.”

Other stars on Cruise’s recipient list includeKirsten DunstandJesse Plemons,Angela Bassett,Hayley Atwell,Rosie O’Donnell,Tom Hanksand more.

In 2023, Brooke Shields told PEOPLE that shedidn’t understand why she had been struck off the listfor receiving the white chocolate coconut bundt cake fromDoan’s Bakeryin 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 noSuriand noKatie [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 onPEOPLE’S 50 Food Faves of 2023.

source: people.com