# Tom Cruise's Coconut Cake

This is a super moist and fluffy coconut cake recipe, a dupe for Tom Cruise's famous coconut cake.

- Total time: 55 min
- Cuisine: American
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 3 cups cake flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon fine table salt
- 0.5 cup full fat coconut milk (canned)
- 0.75 cup buttermilk
- 2 teaspoons pure coconut extract
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups sugar
- 1.5 sticks unsalted butter, softened
- 0.25 cup vegetable oil or canola oil
- 1 cup chopped white chocolate or chips
- 3 eggs
- 2 egg whites
- 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
- 4 oz cream cheese
- Dash fine table salt
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 0.25 cup coconut milk (canned)
- 2.5 cups confectioner's sugar
- 0.5 teaspoon coconut extract
- 0.25 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1.5 cups sweetened shredded coconut for coating

## Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 325F. Butter and lightly flour a 12 cup bundt pan.
2. In a bowl, stir together the cake flour, salt, and baking powder.
3. In another bowl, stir together the buttermilk, coconut milk, 2 teaspoons of coconut extract, and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
4. Beat the butter, oil, and sugar until light and fluffy for about 3 minutes using a stand mixer or electric hand beaters.
5. Slowly add in the eggs and egg whites until incorporated, then scrape the sides of the bowl.
6. Beat again for 2 minutes on high speed.
7. With the mixer on low speed, add the dry mix and the coconut mixture in 3 installments until combined, being careful not to over mix.
8. Stir in the white chocolate chips.
9. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
10. Bake in the oven on the middle rack for about 55 minutes or until a toothpick comes out just clean.
11. Allow the cake to cool completely on a wire rack inside the pan before flipping.
12. Prepare the frosting by combining room temperature unsalted butter, cream cheese, a dash of fine table salt, lemon juice, coconut milk, confectioner's sugar, coconut extract, and pure vanilla extract.
13. Frost the cooled cake.
14. Encrust the whole cake with sweetened shredded coconut.

## Equipment

- bundt pan
- stand mixer
- electric hand beaters
- wire rack

## Tips

- The use of buttermilk, oil, and coconut milk ensures a super moist and fluffy cake.
- The batter is so luscious it's hard to resist eating it raw.
- Encrusting the whole cake with sweet coconut flakes gives it a perfect chewy finish.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1944189546384584?fs=e&mibextid=wwXIfr&fs=e
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/49e14071-2280-4d1c-b744-e46e5563e3ab
- Extracted: 2025-07-18

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