Cranberry Shortbread Cake

Today's Tuesdays with Dorie treat is Not Just for Thanksgiving Cranberry Shortbread Cake picked for us to try by Jessica of Singleton in the Kitchen, thank you Jessica! This is a simple and delicious dessert that I absolutely loved. My only little change was to crumble the top layer of the shortbread crust on instead of rolling it out. This was such a nice pick and just perfect for this time of the year.

My four year old son came into the kitchen while this was baking and said, "thanks for making pancakes for dinner" and I had to explain that there were no pancakes and I was baking a Cranberry Shortbread Cake. About fifteen minutes later my five year old daughter came downstairs and peeked into the kitchen, "mmm" she said, "I smell waffles and bacon" -- so apparently this cake smells like various breakfast foods :) Silly kids, they always keep my laughing.

And because we had our first dusting of snow last week, I felt it was appropriate (okay, I guess I'm just excited about the holidays, give a girl a break) to get out my new snowman cake plate, you can't see the base in the whole cake photo but here is a close up of the adorable little snowman on the pedestal, isn't he cute?