Cream the butter, sugar and vanilla extract together using a wooden spoon.
Add the flour and sir in using the wooden spoon.
When there are no floury bits left, add the nuts and cranberries. Use your hands to mix the nuts and cranberries in and to form into a dough.
Flour the work surface and roll the dough out to just over 5mm thick. Cut into rounds using a biscuit cutter.
Put the biscuits on a couple of baking trays, leaving at least a centimetre between each biscuit.
Put the baking trays in the freezer for half an hour. This will prevent the biscuits from spreading too much when in the oven. Preheat the oven to 160C.
Bake the cookies in the oven for about 15 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
Notes
Use whatever combination of nuts you want.You can also substitute the cranberries for another dried fruit. Chopped apricots also work well.Nutritional information is approximate and a guideline only.