Old-Fashioned Shortbread Cookies with Salted Caramel

INGREDIENTS

2 tsp

Vanilla bean paste or 1 vanilla bean split in half and beans scraped out

1/3 cup

Corn syrup

2 cups

All purpose flour

5/8 cup

Dixie crystal pure cane sugar

1/2 tsp

Salt

Sea salt, flaky

1 tsp

Vanilla

8 oz

unsalted butter, unsalted

1/2 cup

Butter

1/4 cup

Heavy cream

½ cup Dixie Crystals All Natural Dark Brown Sugar