Dried Cranberry Shortbread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup icing sugar, sifted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
1/2 cup dried cranberries, finely chopped

Preparation

Preheat oven to 325F with rack in center.
Put butter, sugar, vanilla, flour, and salt, in large mixing bowl. Stir together by hand until combined, but not creamy. Stir in dried cranberries.
Press dough evenly into 8\" square baking pan.
Bake until firm and pale golden, about 30 minutes.
Let cool in pan on wire rack about 20 minutes.
Run knife around edges to loosen from pan and move to work surface, right side up.
Cut out using cookie cutter, or cut in to squares using knife.