Zucchini Cookie Wars--Smith age 3 and Lucy age 2

Contestant #1 

Contestant #2

Amy's Take: School started this week. The kitchen was mine again. I made peach galette, peach cream pie and mock apple pie (made with zucchini, of course, and amazingly like apple pie) all in one day just to reclaim my territory. That was a bit much pie.We still have some left. 
Smith and Lucy are still home, of course, and haven't figured out that I have any territory that is off limits to them. So, they helped me out this week to try two zucchini cookie recipes. The first was Zucchini Cookies with Lemon Glaze. We didn't have a lemon so we used a lime. I  figured that the lime zest in the cookie dough kind of hid the green bits of zucchini.  I used the lime juice in the glaze and put in one drop of yellow and one drop of green food coloring.  They looked like froggy cookies.  Maybe we could put faces on them somehow?  The recipe made a couple dozen cookies and the kids ate them after school until they were gone.  That was because they were totally wonderfully delicious. 
The second cookies were Zucchini Cookies with Chocolate Chips and Dried Cranberries..  Smith was all excited to make cookies with me, ran into the kitchen and saw me grating more zucchini.  "Mom! No more zucchini muffins or zucchini cookies or zucchini bread!  This is wrong."  So, we didn't start out on the right track, really.  Plus we didn't have any chocolate chips since NO GROCERY SHOPPING MONTH is almost over.  Maybe they would have been WAY BETTER with chocolate chips.  But then everything is WAY BETTER with chocolate chips.  Everything is WAY BETTER with CAPITAL LETTERS too.  Just so you know.  Anyway, these cookies are still in the cookie jar.  That's how good they were.
Conclusion:  #1 is obviously the less healthy cookie.  But it is obviously worlds better than cookie #2.  Should cookies be healthy anyway?  That is a philosophical question for another day.