Chick Fil A Milkshake Flavors, Calories and Seasonal Picks

Chick-fil-A offers four permanent milkshake flavors, and the official nutrition for a 16 oz serving is below. Each is topped with whipped cream and a cherry, except on delivery orders.

That table is the whole Chick Fil A menu shakes lineup that never leaves. Strawberry is the lightest by calories and chocolate has the most sugar. Cookies and cream is the heaviest overall, mostly because of the cookie crumbs and the extra fat.

Every one of them carries between 80g and 90g of sugar, so none of these is a light dessert. If you want something lighter that still tastes like a shake, the Frosted Coffee and cold brew page covers a 260-calorie option.

For a wider view of how the shakes fit into the day's numbers, the calorie and nutrition guide lists the rest of the menu.

Chick Fil A Cookies and Cream Milkshake

The cookies and cream shake has 630 calories, 84g of sugar and 25g of fat in a 16 oz cup. It is Icedream blended with cookie crumbs and finished with whipped cream and a cherry.

The ingredient list names cookie crumbs made with wheat flour, cocoa and soy lecithin. Allergens are milk, soy and wheat, so it is the one classic shake that is not milk only. Chick-fil-A does not name a cookie brand on that page, and it does not say the crumbs are Oreo cookies, so do not assume it.

People who order it for the texture get small chunks of cookie throughout.

Chick Fil A Strawberry Milkshake Plus the Chocolate and Vanilla Shakes

The strawberry shake is made with strawberry puree and has 560 calories, which makes it the lightest of the four. It has 87g of sugar and 18g of fat. The puree also lists corn syrup and modified food starch, so it is a sweet, fruit-flavored shake and not a plain blended strawberry drink.

Chocolate has 600 calories, 90g of sugar and 22g of fat, the most sugar of any permanent flavor. It is the richest and the most dessert-like of the three single-flavor shakes.

The chocolate shake is made with chocolate syrup and the same Icedream base, and Chick-fil-A lists the same whole milk, nonfat milk, cream and sugar behind all three.

Vanilla has 580 calories, 80g of sugar and 23g of fat. It is the mildest and the simplest, which makes it the base for custom orders. If you like a plain milkshake with nothing competing with the cream, this is the one.

All three contain milk and no other major allergen on their pages. Choose strawberry for the fewest calories, chocolate for the most flavor, and vanilla when you want the Icedream to stand alone.

The peppermint shake is the Peppermint Chip flavor, a winter limited-time flavor first sold in 2008. It combines Icedream with bits of peppermint bark chips, and it is pink.

It has come back most holiday seasons since then, though Chick-fil-A never guarantees a date, and it can run out before the season ends. A Peppermint Chip Frosted Coffee and a Peppermint Iced Coffee have appeared alongside it in recent years.

Peach is the summer flavor. S'mores is another limited-time shake, available at select locations. Chick-fil-A rotates seasonal flavors, so one you remember may be gone and a new one may appear.

The peppermint flavor tastes cool and minty with a creamy base, and the chips give it small crunchy bits. That is a different experience from the classics, which is why it has a loyal following each winter.

The practical advice is to check the app or ask in the restaurant. The new and seasonal menu items page follows what is being added.

Seasonal shakes can cost more than the classics. The S'mores Milkshake starts at $7.49 on the delivery app, which is a good reference for what a limited-time shake costs there.

Discontinued and Rumored Flavors People Search For

Searches for banana pudding, pumpkin or autumn spice, and frosted sunrise milkshakes turn up often. We could not confirm any of them as a current official menu item, so treat them as unconfirmed.

Some may have been tested in a few markets or may be fan inventions. A past test does not mean a flavor is returning. Chick-fil-A states that it announces seasonal releases in its Press Room and in the app.

If a flavor is not listed in the app for your restaurant, it is not available there, whatever you may have read online. Asking staff is the fastest check.

The kinds of shake on the menu come down to two groups: the classic four plus seasonal flavors, and a family of frosted drinks that use the same base. Each frosted drink swaps the flavor for a beverage.

Pick by what you want from the cup. If dessert is the goal, the classic shake is the answer. If you want a refreshing drink with a creamy edge, a Frosted Lemonade or Frosted Soda fits better. If you want caffeine, the Frosted Coffee is the only one in the family that has it.

The classic shake is the richest and the only one served with whipped cream and a cherry. The frosted drinks are lighter, and each is hand-spun with a drink in place of a flavor syrup.

For the coffee version, see the Frosted Coffee and cold brew page. For lemonade, the lemonade and Frosted Lemonade page. For baked treats, the cookies, brownies and other desserts page.

Every Chick-fil-A shake is built on Icedream, a milk-based dessert, and that base is behind everything people search for as cfa milkshakes. The vanilla ingredient list shows whole milk, sugar, nonfat milk, milkfat and cream, plus whey powder, flavoring, guar gum and carrageenan.

All milkshakes contain dairy, according to Chick-fil-A, and no dairy-free shake exists. Cookies and cream adds soy and wheat from the cookie crumbs.

The strawberry shake lists strawberry puree, corn syrup and modified food starch in its ingredients, and the chocolate shake adds chocolate syrup. Those flavor ingredients sit on top of the same milk base, which is why every flavor lists milk as an allergen.

On delivery, the whipped topping and cherry are left off. You can also ask for no whipped cream or no cherry in person. Chick-fil-A states that mixing two milkshake flavors is not permitted, so a half-and-half order is not an official option.