Copycat Chick-fil-A Cookies

Oftentimes, cookies at a fast-food restaurant are not that great. But the cookies at Chick-fil-A are the exception. Their cookies almost always come to you warm and gooey. They are thick and chewy (thanks to the oats in them) and are full of chocolate chunks. This recipe is as good as, if not better than the originals from the restaurant. You can freeze them, and then when you have a hankering for one, just microwave it for 10 seconds and enjoy a tasty treat!

Ingredients:

1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup butter-flavored Crisco
1 1/2 cups dark brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 3/4 cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup quick cooking oats (you can also use old fashioned, but I prefer the quick cooking)
12 ounce bag Nestle semisweet chocolate chunks
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In the mixing bowl of your stand mixer, cream the butter, Crisco, dark brown sugar and white sugar
3. Mix in the eggs one at a time. 
4. Mix in the vanilla.
5. In a separate medium bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. 
6. Slowly add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and mix until combined.
7. Stir in oats.
8. Fold in the chocolate chunks and chocolate chips.
9. To get the thick texture of the original Chick-fil-A cookie, you are going to put two scoops of cookie dough to make each cookie. Use a medium cookie scoop (2 T) to scoop the cookie dough and stack two cookie dough balls, one on top of the other like you are making a snowman, on cookie sheets lined with parchment paper. I put 6 cookies per sheet to make sure they have enough room to spread out.
10. Bake cookies for 11-13 minutes. If your cookies are odd shaped, you can use a large cookie cutter and kinds of swirl it around the warm cookies right when they come out of the oven to get a nice round shape.
11. Cool the cookies on the baking sheet for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. 

Makes 24 cookies