Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Spray a 12 cup muffin tin with a cooking spray or use muffin paper cups.
Place dried cranberries into a bowl and cover with hot water for 10 minutes.
In a large bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, and salt.
In a medium bowl, whisk together, vegetable oil, sugar, eggs, milk, orange juice, vanilla, and orange zest.
Slowly add wet ingredient mixture to the flour mixture and mix. (Don't over mix).
Fold in cranberries carefully.
Spoon batter into muffin tin cups.
Bake for 5 minutes on 425 degrees, then lower temperature to 375 degrees and cook for an additional 13-15 minutes.
Serve & Enjoy.