Our Story

Moonlight Cracker Company is a small family-owned business baking hearty oyster crackers styled after the Original Trenton Cracker (OTC) made in Trenton, NJ for over 100 years.

Our family Christmas Eve dinner tradition included Oyster Stew and we all looked forward to the crackers that provided a much-needed crunch and texture to the stew. We all cracked our own crackers in our bowls before the stew was added (with or without oysters), we filled up on crackers and horseradish on the best night of the year.

After OTC went out of business we searched for a suitable replacement and came up empty. The only oyster crackers were very small and paper-thin and dissolved instantly in liquid.  To save Christmas Eve dinner we created the Moonlight Cracker Oyster Cracker!

Our crackers are made with 5 simple ingredients, including real butter. They are crunchy and buttery and quite delicious in stews, soups and dipped in horseradish.  The most common way to eat them is to crush them between the palms of your hands directly into your bowl. You can use a nutcracker too! Or, eat them with a dab or two of horseradish with steamed shrimp and raw oysters.

McHugh Family

Here we are at our family vacation spot in Stone Harbor, New Jersey!

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