Season 2026 · Very serious data
TJ's Christmas
Tree Cake Tracker
Boxes of Christmas Tree Cakes devoured this holiday season
Box log
No boxes logged yet. The tree is waiting.
Countdown & Pace
Season countdown
Approximate! McKee Foods says the 2026 holiday snacks start appearing in stores in mid-October and stay through mid-December, while supplies last. Your store may differ. (USA Today, Virginian Review)
Pace tracker
Countdown to Christmas
Santa's Naughty/Nice verdict
Fun Stats
Fun (and mildly alarming) equivalents
- 🥛0 glasses of milk recommended
- 🍽️0 days of a 2,000-calorie diet
- 🦌Reindeer approval rating: pending
- 📏Lined up tip to base: 0 ft
- 🧈Weighs as much as 0 sticks of butter
- 🎁0 tiny wrappers to recycle
- ⏱️0 minutes of very serious chewing
Approximate. One cake is about 4 in tall, tip to base (from a product review, not a lab). Cakes weigh 49 g and are individually wrapped. A stick of butter is 4 oz (113 g). The Statue of Liberty is 151 ft 1 in from base to torch (National Park Service). Chewing time (3 min per cake) is made up.
Badges
Achievement badges
Badges unlock from the box dates in the log. Weekend = Saturday and Sunday of the same weekend.
Games
Unwrap a cake
Here's a fresh box of five. Tap a cake to peel the wrapper.
Pick a cake. Any cake. They're all very tree-shaped.
Catch the Cakes mini-game
Slide the plate to catch falling cakes. Dodge the coal. Miss 3 cakes (or catch 3 coal) and it's over.
Controls: ← → or A D to move · Space to pause · drag on the game or hold the arrow buttons on touch. Best score is saved on this device only.
Cake Fortune
Crack open a cake and see what the frosting says.
Press the button for your fortune. 🎄
Guess the Total
Guess the season total
How many boxes will TJ finish by New Year's Eve? Closest guess takes the (imaginary) crown.
SOON
The shared leaderboard is still being wired up at the North Pole (the site needs a storage shelf first). Guessing opens the moment it's ready, and everyone will see the same board. No guesses are collected until then.
Privacy: we only keep a nickname (2–16 letters, numbers, spaces, - _ . !) and your number. No emails, no accounts. One guess per nickname. Please keep nicknames kind.
Records
Cake Records the holiday record player
Pick a record, drop the needle. The Hit Parade plays twelve classic Christmas recordings straight from the artists' official YouTube uploads on a tiny TV. The Music Box plays eight public-domain carols that your browser synthesizes. Nothing is hosted here and nothing autoplays.
Chiptune and music-box carols. No video here.
The TV is YouTube's own player, so its controls work too. Press play and your browser connects to YouTube (youtube-nocookie.com) and YouTube's terms apply. If YouTube is blocked or fails, the Music Box takes over.
The crate
Tip: on a phone, the volume lives here (your device buttons work too). If you hear nothing on iPhone, check the silent switch. Hit Parade recordings belong to their artists and labels and are streamed from their official YouTube uploads. Music Box tunes are hundreds of years old and public domain, and the arrangements are tiny fan-made synth versions.