Cranberry Orange Shortbread

🧂 Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter

  at room temperature
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• ½ cup dried cranberries

  finely chopped
• zest of one orange
• ¼ tsp pure orange oil

  optional; order online
• ¼ tsp pure vanilla extract
• 1/8 pure almond extract

  optional

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease pan lightly with baking spray and coat the
  details of the pan with a pastry brush.
• 2 Cream butter until it’s light. Beat in the powdered sugar, then the vanilla and
  orange zest.
  
  Add the orange oil and almond extract, if using.
• 3 Finally, work in the flour. Knead dough on an un-floured board until smooth.
  
  Firmly press dough into pan, so that it comes up below the rope detail.
• 4 Poke all of the surface with a fork, and bake for 30-35 minutes or until lightly
  browned.
• 5 Let cool in pan for about 10 minutes. Loosen the edges, and invert onto a
  cutting board. Cut into serving pieces while warm.

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