These copycat Chick-fil-a chocolate chunk cookies are the real deal. Large cookies that are thick, loaded with chocolate chunks, milk chocolate chips, and oats. Serve warm with a glass of cold milk!Â
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Copycat Chick-fil-A Chocolate Chunk Cookies
When my son worked at Chick-fil-A I’d frequently stop by and order a few cookies just to get a peek at my cute kid working in the drive-thru. Other times I’d place a mobile order and have him deliver a warm chocolate chunk cookie to the car at the end of his shift. There was just something about those cookies that made them SO good. Large, thick, and loaded with chocolate and oats, At $8 for 6 cookies I knew I needed to come up with a homemade version for our family.
I went to the website and wrote down the ingredients list. Then I altered my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, making adjustments here and there to create the perfect cookie dough. I used dark brown sugar instead of light brown sugar. I adjusted the ratio of brown and white sugar, added oats, and used a mixture of chocolate chunks and milk chocolate chips. Instead of using one cookie scoop of dough per cookie, I used two. Each cookie is 1/4 cup of cookie dough. Bigger than our classic cookies, but smaller than our jumbo chocolate chip cookies.
The result was perfection. Our favorite way to enjoy them is served warm straight from the oven or reheated in the microwave for 5 seconds. More often than not our local Chick-fil-A serves them warm so we’ve grown accustomed to a warm and gooey cookie.
Copycat Chick-fil-A Cookie Ingredients
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- Butter
- Shortening: Chick-fil-A uses shortening in their cookies. I like using a combination of shortening and butter in many of my recipes because the shortening gives the cookies a nice texture and the butter gives them a rich flavor. If you’d prefer not to use shortening you can use vegetable oil, butter or coconut oil in its place.
- Dark brown sugar: You can use light brown sugar, but dark brown adds flavor and moisture to the cookies.
- Sugar
- Eggs
- Vanilla
- Flour
- Baking soda
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Oats
- Semisweet chocolate chunks
- Milk chocolate chips
How To Make Copycat Chick-fil-a Chocolate Chip Cookies
Making the dough is pretty straightforward. You’ll cream the butter, shortening and sugars then beat in the eggs and vanilla.
Mix the dry ingredients together then add them to the wet ingredients. Add oats, chocolate chips, and chocolate chunks and stir until just combined.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Tips and Tricks
- My cousin shared this cookie dough stacking trick with me a couple of years ago and it works great! The taller cookie dough ball cooks slower, resulting in crispy edges and a soft center. It’s easy to do, too! Using a medium cookie scoop, scoop two balls of dough. Place one on top of the other then bake! I typically bake 4-6 cookies per sheet.
- If the cookies come out of the oven and aren’t perfectly round you can easily tidy up the edges using a spatula or biscuit cutter. Place the large biscuit cutter over the HOT cookie and gently shake it back and forth. Most of the cookies will come out perfect, but sometimes the top cookie dough ball slides a little resulting in a delicious cookie that is more of an oval shape. Not a big deal at all, but I like uniform-shaped cookies.
- You can add a few extra chocolate chunks to the tops of the hot cookies (optional).
This recipe makes 20 large cookies. Store in an airtight container.
Copycat Chick-fil-A Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Copycat Chick-fil-A Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 1/2 cups dark brown sugar packed
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 Tbsp. vanilla extract
- 2 3/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup oats quick cooking or old fashioned
- 12 ounce bag semisweet chocolate chunks (about 2 cups)
- 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cream butter, shortening, dark brown sugar and white sugar in a large mixing bowl.
- Beat in eggs and vanilla.
- In a seperate bowl combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Stir. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and stir until combined.
- Stir in oats.
- Stir in chocolate chunks and chocolate chips.
- Using a medium cookie scoop (2 Tbsp.) scoop cookie dough and stack two cookie dough balls, one on top of the other, on baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake 4-6 cookies per sheet to allow for room to spread. (See photo in blog post for a visual)
- Bake cookies for 12 minutes. Allow cookies to rest on baking sheet for 3 minutes before transferring to wire cooking rack.
Notes
Nutrition
I am going to try your recipe. Can I use all butter, instead of a combination of butter and shortening? Thanks.
Absolutely!
These are amazing!! The only changes I made were to use a scant cup oat flour in place of the oats and used mini and regular semisweet chips (to use them up!) and milk chocolate chunks (cut up some milk chocolate Trader Joe’s bars.) Using a 1.5 Tbs scoop yielded 30 cookies.
The double cookie dough stacking scoop trick is a game changer…. This may be a first when my recipe turned out looking just like the picture featured in the recipe!
The whole family just had a round of the first batch hot from the oven. We love those Chic fila cookies and my 11 year old just announced that your recipe is even better than Chic fila (ultimate compliment as she is picky when it comes to her favorites 🙂 Since I don’t have shortening on hand, I swap used canola oil after reading I could use it as a sub and it still came out perfect.
Again, dangerously delish. Thank you!
Kate, this made my day! I’m so glad you guys enjoyed them so much!