Tom Hanks called it “the most delicious cake you will ever have on your platter,” during an interview with Virgin Radio UK. Glen Powell agreed when telling Jennifer Hudson about the famous Tom Cruise Christmas cake during a visit to her show. “It's the most delicious cake you've ever had,” Powell said.
Henry Cavill initially thought a dessert gift from Tom Cruise must be some healthy version of cake that he was wholly uninterested in. When a friend convinced him to cut it open, he admitted he could not have been more wrong. “It is the most luxurious, unhealthy coconut cake,” Cavill said, during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
“It's the best coconut cake I've ever had in my life,” Kirsten Dunst said during The Graham Norton Show.
Cruise himself does not partake in the sweet treat. “I love sugar, but I can't eat it, so I send it to everyone, and I wait for the calls: ‘Tell me about it,’” Cruise revealed on The Late Late Show with James Corden.
Also on the Tom Cruise Christmas cake list are Jimmy Fallon, Angela Bassett, Gayle King, Renee Zellweger, and many more.
Feeling the FOMO yet? There's no need. The infamous cake comes from Doan’s Bakery in California and is a white chocolate coconut Bundt cake with cream cheese frosting, dusted with toasted coconut flakes. Thanks to the Gold Belly website and app, you don't have to go to Woodland Hills, Calif., be on Cruise’s holiday list, or wait until December to try it for yourself. The cake ships nationwide and year round for $129.95.
And it's just one of many viral food sensations available at Gold Belly. If you saw it on YouTube, TikTok or Instagram, it's probably there.
“Not Fried Chicken” Ice Cream
Did you see your favorite influencer chomping into fried chicken ice cream or trying to prank their family with plates of the sweet treat? Life Raft Treats of Charleston, S.C., took social media by storm with its Not Fried Chicken ice cream. Coated in crushed corn flakes, which hide waffle cream and a chocolate-covered cookie “bone,” these ice cream drum stick treats come packaged in a fried chicken style bucket. You get nine 3-ounce ice cream treats for $109.95.
Floof Cotton Candy Cakes
Floof Cotton Candy Cakes’ signature 9-inch rainbow cotton candy floof cake also made the rounds on seemingly everyone’s for you page. For $48.95, you can get in on the colorful fun. Floof Cotton Candy Cakes of Auburn, Calif., was founded in 2021 during the global pandemic. The colorful layers of compressed cotton candy include watermelon, peach-mango, lemonade, kiwi-strawberry, and blue razz flavors along with a bag of sprinkles.
PieCaken
What happens when a pecan pie, pumpkin pie, spice cake, apple pie, and cinnamon buttercream collide? PieCaken! Named by Chowhound “The Most Epic Holiday Dessert of All,” PieCaken is available all year from PieCaken Bakeshop in New York City for $99.95. Creator Zac Young said on the Tamron Hall Show that the rich dessert takes about seven hours to make.
Ace of Cakes
Duff Goldman rose to fame creating over-the-top realistic cakes at Charm City Cakes in Baltimore, Md. Food Network dubbed him the Ace of Cakes, and in addition to creating life-size edible motorcycles and guitars, Charm City Cakes cranked out elegant and more traditional wedding, birthday other event cakes. With Gold Belly, you can select seasonal cakes, birthday cakes, and even a Maryland crab or sushi cake with that signature Duff Goldman flair. Prices range from $79.95 to $109.95.
Trash Can Nachos
Trash can might now sound like the most appetizing modifier for nachos, but celebrity chef Guy Fieri makes it work with layers of flavor in a nacho mountain. After baking a sheet pan of tortilla chips, cheddar cheese, pureed black beans, smoked Gouda cheese sauce, smoked brisket, and barbecue sauce, extra cheese sauce is used as “glue” as the baked nachos are layered into a large cylinder, the “trash can,” and topped with more cheese sauce, pico de Gallo, cilantro, pickled onion, and sour cream. Once the trash can is removed, a mound of nachos is left.
For $99.95, you get everything you need to assemble your own trash can nachos, “trash can” included. You can even add on the Mayor of Flavortown’s caliente margaritas kit for an additional $20, tequilla not included.
Taco Pizza
Toney Baloney of Atlantic City, N.J. boasts that its taco pizza is “the most famous pizza … ever!” The pizzas are topped with mozzarella cheese, brisket, mole sauce then finished with three types of tacos - beer jalapeno chicken, Jewish brisket, and mescal chipotle steak. Get two taco pizzas for $129.95. They come with sides of pickled jalapeno crema, guacamole, chipotle sauce and babushka horseradish cream. You can even choose to make your pies vegan. If you missed them on Food Network’s “The Best Thing I Ever Ate” or “Great American Food Finds,” look no further than YouTube or TikTok, where you can find people trying it and also showing how the indulgent pizza is made.
Regional Favorites
Foods that set the Internet on fire and celebrity chef creations are just a small portion of the offerings on Gold Belly. You can get Georgia peaches direct from Georgia, Seafood gumbo from New Orleans, Maine lobster rolls, a Juicy Lucy from Minneapolis, Minn., authentic Texas smoked brisket, a Pat’s Original Philly from Pat’s King of Steaks, which bills itself as the “The Creators of the Philly Cheesesteak,” and, of course, every iteration of pizza - Detroit-style, Chicago deep dish, or a New York Slice.
For $229.95, you can get a smattering of New York offerings with the Taste of New York. It includes a John's of Bleecker Street's cheese pizza, an Eli Zabar's Pastrami Sandwich Kit, a 6-inch Junior’s original cheesecake, six assorted Zucker’s bagels, and six Greenberg Desserts’ black and white cookies.
And if you're looking for a gift for a chronically online friend or family member missing hometown eats, Gold Belly also offers digital and physical gift cards. They ship to the U.S. and Canada, though some products are limited to U.S. shipping. Canadian prices may vary.
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