Norman Rockwell eat your heart out.

The Tree is up and now, there is shortbread in the oven, that's right SHORTBREAD.

There is something intimidating I think about shortbread, but fear not!  Here is a easy recipe that will have your holiday (no CHRISTMAS) guests asking / demanding (depending on your guests) for more.  Here is how to start:
Ingredients:

1 1/2 Cups of Butter (room temperature)
1 cup of sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla
3 1/2 cups of flour
1/4 teaspoon of salt

The non intimidating instructions:

- Pre heat oven to 350
-With an electric bowl mixer cream together the sugar and butter together until light and fluffy

mix at warp speed.

- In a seperate bowl sift together flour and salt
- Add the flour to the creamed butter mixture, mix until .... mixture comes together
- Drop the combined mixture on a floured surface and shape into a disk.  Refrigerate the disc for a half an hour
- Roll the dough out to 1/2" thick and play with the shapes a bit.  My only suggestion is to keep shapes that are similar.

- Bake for roughly 20 mins ( i did 15 mins. because my shapes were smaller)