Christmas Ginger Cookies: Ginger is one of the ingredients that to me signals the arrival of the holidays. Try these simple, easy, aromatic cookies with your favorite hot drink.
Making the dough: Put flour, sugar, ginger, cinnamon, and salt into the food processor. Add butter and pulse until the butter breaks down and the mixture resembles sanding sugar. Pour in the water and pulse until the mixture clumps together like a ball. You may need to pause midway and use a spatula to make sure there are no unmixed ingredients sticking to the side.
Forming cookies: Pour the dough onto a piece of waxed paper, roll into a cylinder of 1 ¼" [3 cm]. Freeze for an hour.Remove cookie log from the freezer, cut into ¼" [0.5 cm] inch slices.
Baking: Place on a lined cookie tray with at least 2.5" [6 cm] separation between them (they will double in width when baked). Sprinkle with pecans.Bake for 20 mins in preheated oven at 300 ºF [150 ºC]. Remove from the oven and cool to room temperature on a wire rack.
Serving and storing: Store wrapped tightly in wax paper and placed in a tight-fitting lid. Consume within 24 hrs.