So listen, I can resist brownies.  I can resist cake.  I can resist pie.  I can resist all of these if I am being really healthy.  But let me tell you what I cannot resist no matter how hard I try...SHORTBREAD COOKIES!!

I become a crazy person around these cookies.  I lose all discipline and sanity when these cookies are around.  I suddenly forget any goals I had for the week and don't care how many calories these cookies have, I will eat them anyway!  Multiples even. 

I may or may not have eaten four of them the first day and maybe then again on the second day that these cookies hung around my house.  And then I may have had to give the rest to the neighbors because if I didn't get them out of my sight,  I was pretty close to pulling a Miranda from Sex and the City  when she put the chocolate cake in the trash and then got it back out and ate it anyway!  Oh yeah, that is where I was headed...

Why then you might ask would I make these addicting cookies when I knew I was headed into temporary insanity ?  Well...that's a good question.  One that I asked myself during the whole time I was baking them.  I was actually trying to talk myself out of making them even as I was getting the ingredients together. 

But...nevertheless I made them and ate them, and you know what?  Turns out I don't regret it at all because every slightly sweet, buttery, flaky bite was totally worth it!