90 minutes of football failed to produce a goal but Chelsea thought they had done enough to set up a fifth round clash with Reading when Frank Lampard finally found the back of the net in the 104th minute.
However Leighton Baines took the game to penalties when firing home a spectacular free kick in the last minute of extra time.
Baines missed the first spot kick to swing the tie Chelsea's way again but both Nicolas Anelka and Ashley Cole also missed before Phil Neville slotted the decisive spot kick to send the Toffees through.
Manchester United made hard work of their fifth round clash before eventually edging out non-league Crawley Town 1-0 at Old Trafford.
Crawley matched United for large parts of the game but it was Wes Brown that finally broke the deadlock when he headed home Darren Gibson's cross in the 28th minute.
Richard Brodie struck the post deep in stoppage time but United to survived and will go into the hat for the quarter finals.
Elsewhere, Stoke cruised through to the quarter-finals with a comfortable 3-0 win at home to Brighton, with all the goals coming in the first half.
John Carew got things underway in the 14th minutes with a close range header before Jonathan Walters made it 2-0 with another header, this time at the near post.
Ryan Shawcross made it a hat-trick of headers on the stroke of half time to send the Seagulls crashing out.
Birmingham City also made light work of Sheffield Wednesday with a 3-0 victory at St Andrews.
Jean Beausejour opened the scoring after just six minutes before Obafemi Martins made it 2-0. David Murphy got the third after the break to put Birmingham in the draw for the quarters.
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