Buddy Valastro

Spices may not be seasonal, but the spices in these cookies—cinnamon, cloves, and allspice—always put me in mind of fall because they are important ingredients in so many recipes of that season. Usually, the scent of sugar rules the air at the Carlo's Bake Shop factory, but in the fall, the factory smells of those spices, which always gets me excited for the holidays.

All the kids in our family used to get together and make these cookies at our house every year; now we do it at the Carlo's factory.

Keep the kids busy twisting red and white strands of sugar cookie dough into a candy cane pattern. The cookies will look enticing when you pull them from the oven but resist–they taste even better the next day.