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McDonald's Cookies: Prices, Calories and the 13-Cookie Tote

Updated 3 September 2026 170 calories each · tote is 2,160 Verified by our pricing team

McDonald's cookies come in one flavour and three sizes: a single chocolate chip cookie at 170 calories, a 3-pack, and a 13-cookie tote that totals 2,160.

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A McDonald's chocolate chip cookie is 170 calories and around $1.29. The 13-cookie tote is 2,160 calories in total. Chocolate chip is the only flavour on the US menu; Canada sells three others the States has never had.

McDonald's cookies are the smallest and cheapest dessert on the board, and the only one that does not depend on the soft serve machine working. McDonald's cookies are soft baked rather than crisp, and held warm rather than served at room temperature, which is most of why they taste different from a packet cookie. This page covers all three McDonald's cookies pack sizes with prices, the calorie figures including one that does not divide the way you would expect, what is actually in them, and which pack is the better buy. Full dessert pricing is on our McDonald's desserts menu, and the full board is on the McDonald's menu with prices.

One cookie170
Price each$1.29
13-cookie tote2,160
US flavours1
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McDonald's cookies: every size and price

McDonald's cookies come in three formats and one flavour. McDonald's does not publish a single national price for cookies, so the figures below are our surveyed midpoints. Individual restaurants vary more on this item than almost anything else on the board.

PACKPRICECALORIESBEST FOR

Single Chocolate Chip Cookie

The cheapest dessert on the menu
$1.29170One person

3-Cookie Pack

Listed under Sweets & Treats in the app
$2.99510Two to share

13-Cookie Tote

Handled cardboard box. Also called the Cookie Box
$7.992,160A group

Lowest recorded single

Rural and value-menu restaurants
$0.99170Cheapest

Highest recorded single

Airport and highway restaurants
$1.79170Dearest

13 singles bought separately

For comparison with the tote
$16.772,210Worse value
There is no national McDonald's cookie price, and several guides invent one. McDonald's lists the products but leaves pricing to franchisees, and the real spread runs from under a dollar to close to two. Open the app with your restaurant selected and look under Sweets & Treats for the actual figure before ordering.

McDonald's cookies calories, and the tote maths

170 per cookie and 2,160 for the tote, both published by McDonald's. Divide the second by thirteen and you get 166, not 170, which is worth explaining rather than ignoring.

WHAT YOU ORDERCALORIESPER COOKIESOURCE

One cookie

McDonald's published figure
170170Official

Two cookies

No dedicated 2-pack on the US menu
340170Calculated

3-Cookie Pack

510170Calculated

13-Cookie Tote

The figure that does not divide evenly
2,160166Official

Sugar, per cookie

15g—Official

Sugar, whole tote

Roughly four days' recommended intake
~195g—Calculated
The tote works out at 166 calories a cookie, not 170. McDonald's rounds each product's figure independently, so a total is not always the sum of its parts. The same thing happens with McNuggets boxes, where per-nugget averages shift between sizes. Both figures are correct as published; neither is a typo.

McDonald's cookies are the lightest dessert they sell

At 170 calories a cookie is lighter than a vanilla cone at 200, an apple pie at 230 and a regular Oreo McFlurry at 410. It also carries 15g of sugar against the cone's 24g. Every figure is on our McDonald's calorie list.

Which McDonald's cookies pack is worth buying?

The tote is the best value per cookie by a wide margin, but only if you have people to share it with. On our surveyed midpoints it works out at roughly 61 cents a cookie against $1.29 buying singles.

PACKPRICEPER COOKIESAVING

Single

Most expensive per cookie
$1.29$1.29Baseline

3-Cookie Pack

Saves about 30 cents a cookie
$2.99$1.00−23%

13-Cookie Tote

Best value if you can finish it
$7.99$0.61−53%

Tote vs 13 singles

The real comparison
$7.99vs $16.77Saves $8.78
Compare the tote against your own restaurant's single price before assuming it's a deal. Because cookie pricing is local, a restaurant selling singles at 99 cents makes thirteen of them $12.87, and the tote's advantage narrows. Divide your local tote price by thirteen and compare. Current offers are on our McDonald's meal deals page.

What's in McDonald's cookies?

Enriched wheat flour, margarine, sugar and brown sugar, egg, semi-sweet chocolate chips, leavening, salt, natural flavour and caramel colour. The chips themselves contain milkfat and soy lecithin, which is why the allergen list runs longer than the ingredient list suggests.

QUESTIONANSWERWHYNOTE

Contains wheat?

Enriched wheat flour is the base
YesFlourNot gluten free

Contains egg?

YesIn the doughNot vegan

Contains milk?

Milkfat is inside the chocolate chips
YesThe chipsNot dairy free

Contains soy?

Soy lecithin in the chips
YesEmulsifier—

Contains nuts?

Not as an ingredient
No—Kitchen shared

Baked in restaurant?

Then held warm rather than cooled
YesOn siteWhy they're soft
McDonald's cookies are held warm, which is most of why they taste different from a packet cookie. McDonald's bakes them on site and keeps them in a warming drawer rather than letting them cool and firm up. That is also why texture varies between restaurants: a cookie that has sat longer is a different thing from one that just came out. Full allergen detail on our McDonald's allergen menu.

Contains wheat, egg, milk and soy. Not vegan and not gluten free, and no modification makes them so.

Canada sells three McDonald's cookies the US doesn't

The American McDonald's cookies menu carries chocolate chip and nothing else. Cross the border and McDonald's lists three different cookies on a completely different recipe, running to 250 calories each rather than 170.

COOKIEMARKETCALORIESNOTE

Chocolate Chip

The only US option
US170Soft baked

Chewy Chocolate Chunk

Chunks rather than chips
Canada250Not in the US

Rainbow Sprinkle

Canada250Not in the US

Toasted S'mores

Canada240Not in the US

13-Cookie Tote

US only. Canada lists singles
US2,160No Canadian tote
Canadian McDonald's cookies are nearly 50 percent bigger by calories. 250 against 170 is a different recipe rather than a different portion of the same one, and the tote does not exist there at all. Menus by market are on our McDonald's international menu page.

McDonald's cookies don't need the ice cream machine

McDonald's cookies come from the kitchen, not the soft serve machine, so they stay available when cones, sundaes and McFlurries do not. If the app tells you McDonald's ice cream is unavailable at your restaurant, cookies and the apple pie are the two desserts still on.

Prices are a national midpoint recorded from restaurant menu boards in August 2026. McDonald's does not publish a national cookie price, so local figures vary widely. Calorie figures for the single cookie and the 13-cookie tote are McDonald's published US data; pack figures in between are calculated. Full dessert range on our McDonald's desserts menu, and the full board on the McDonald's menu with prices.

McDonald's Cookies FAQ

How much are McDonald's cookies?

Around $1.29 for a single at our national midpoint, $2.99 for a 3-pack and $7.99 for the 13-cookie tote. McDonald's does not publish a national cookie price, and singles range from about $0.99 to $1.79 depending on the restaurant.

How many calories in McDonald's cookies?

170 calories with 15g of sugar. That makes it the lightest dessert on the menu — a vanilla cone is 200 and an apple pie 230.

How many calories in the 13-cookie tote?

2,160, which is McDonald's published figure. That works out at 166 per cookie rather than 170, because McDonald's rounds each product's number independently. Both figures are correct as published.

What flavours are McDonald's cookies?

Chocolate chip, and only chocolate chip, on the US menu. Canada separately lists Chewy Chocolate Chunk, Rainbow Sprinkle and Toasted S'mores, none of which have appeared in American restaurants.

Is the Cookie Tote worth it?

On our midpoints it works out at about 61 cents a cookie against $1.29 buying singles — a saving of nearly $9 over thirteen. But since cookie pricing is local, divide your restaurant's tote price by thirteen and compare with its single price before assuming.

Are McDonald's cookies baked fresh?

They are baked on site and held in a warming drawer rather than left to cool, which is why they are soft rather than crisp. It also means texture varies — a cookie that has sat a while is not the same as one just out of the oven.

Are McDonald's cookies vegan?

No. They contain egg in the dough and milkfat inside the chocolate chips. They also contain wheat and soy, so they are not gluten free or soy free either, and no modification changes that.

How many cookies are in the tote?

Thirteen, in a handled cardboard box. Some restaurants and guides call it the Cookie Box, but it is the same product. Canada does not sell a tote at all — only individual cookies.

Do McDonald's cookies come in a 2-pack?

Not as a listed US product. McDonald's sells singles, a 3-pack and the 13-cookie tote. For two, order quantity two of the single — that comes to 340 calories.

Can I get McDonald's cookies when the ice cream machine is down?

Yes. Cookies are baked in the kitchen, not made on the soft serve machine, so they stay available when McDonald's ice cream and McFlurries are not.

Prices shown are based on typical U.S. McDonald’s menu prices as of August 2026 and may vary by location. Check your local restaurant or McDonald’s app for the latest prices.

Timing questions are answered on breakfast hours .

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About the Author

Priya Raman

Pricing Editor

Priya has tracked fast food pricing since 2019. Every figure on this page comes from our own field survey: eight researchers photograph restaurant menu boards at 62 locations across 14 states in the first week of each month, and we publish the median. We do not use app pricing, which runs higher, and we do not carry figures forward from a previous month without re-checking them.