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How to make a gingerbread cookie milkshake
Combine your dry ingredients.
In the medium-sized bowl, whisk together the ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, allspice, baking soda, salt, and 2 cups flour until these dry ingredients appear evenly mixed together. Once done whisking, set aside for now.
With the hand mixer, beat butter and brown sugar until smooth in the other bowl. You will know you are done mixing when the butter/sugar mixture is a well-mixed, viscous substance with no clear distinctions.