Creepy treats for Hallow's Eve

Dreadful Drinks by Gwen Frost

Caramel Apple Punch
1 quart apple cider
1 ¼ cup spiced rum
2 tbsp. lemon juice
1 red apple, thinly sliced
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. sugar

1. Heat apple cider over a stove-top on low, not enough to boil but enough to make make the cider very hot.
2. Stir in lemon juice and rum to warmed cider
3. Put pot on lowest heat and add either caramel liqueur or caramel syrup (or both if you have a sweet tooth!)
4. Mix cinnamon and sugar in bowl. Take serving glasses and wet the rims with your finger or a cloth, and after pouring the cinnamon sugar on a plate, place cup upside-down with the wet rim on cinnamon sugar.
5. Take apple slices and put two or three in the glass, and then cut on almost two the rind in the middle of the slice and put on the rim of the glass
6. Pour in apple cider mixture, and enjoy this festive seasonal drink!

 
Witches Brew
Ingredients:
1 tbsp cayenne pepper
1 tbsp ground salt
¼ cup lime juice
1 tsp lime zest
1 slice of lime
6oz of ginger beer
4 or 5 tbsp tequila
4 frozen or fresh blackberries
2 or 3 ice cubes
Instructions:

1. Pour tequila and ginger beer into a pitcher, stir well (shake if possible)
2. Blend in ¼ cup lime juice
3. Combine cayenne pepper and salt in a separate bowl. Take serving glasses and wet the rims with your finger or a cloth, and after pouring the cayenne salt mixture on a plate, place cup upside-down with the wet rim on the mixture.
4. Put 2-3 ice cubes, as well as blackberries, into serving glass.
5. Pour in tequila mixture
6. Sprinkle lime zest on top of drink, and use slice of lime to garnish the rim of the glass. Your potion is complete!

Halloweekend has passed, and your jaw dropping, no-one-else-could’ve-thought-
of-this costume turned out to be one of four different Pickle Rick’s you saw galavanting around Western on Saturday night. Western has already hosted a haunted house, and you’re beginning to get sick thinking about eating another Butterfinger. But alas! Hallow’s Eve is not until Tuesday, giving you a full two days to continue embracing the spook and splendor that only comes once a year, just before Target and Kia start their arsenal of Christmas ads. No better time than to sit back, drink a (insert Gwen’s mixed drink), and get to that Halloween themed recipe you’ve been waiting to break out for months. Haven’t got one? Well it’s convenient that you’ve stumbled upon this exact page of this issue of the AS Review.
 
Rest In Pumpkin Bread Recipe by Josh Hughes

Serving Size: 1 full loaf (depending on your pans, should serve 4-5 people)
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 70 minutes
Ingredients:
2 Cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ stick of unsalted butter
1 ½ cups sugar
2 eggs
1 15oz can of pumpkin pie filling
1 Ritter Sport
Green icing
Happy Birthday candles (this will make sense soon enough)
Candy corn/pumpkins
Instructions:
While preheating the oven to 325, melt the stick of butter until it’s soft enough to mash. Get a large bowl and pour the butter and sugar in while whisking aggressively. Once blended, add each egg individually and whisk until the mixture is consistent and even. After delicately whisking for another minute, add the entire can of pumpkin pie filling into the mixture (if you choose to use pure pumpkin filling instead, be sure to compensate by adding cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves to your mixture). Once thoroughly mixed, set aside.
Next take a smaller bowl and pour baking soda, baking powder, salt and flour into it. Stir until even, and then pour into the larger bowl with the pumpkin mixture.
Once your batter is evenly whisked, prepare your pan by either spraying oil or applying melted butter until the pan is thoroughly greased. Pour the batter into the pan and set in the oven, ideally in the very center and the very middle. Set timer for 65-70 minutes and allow 10 minutes for cooling.
When the bread is cooked and cooled, cut out a tiny sliver at one end of the bread deep enough to hold up the Ritter Sport (really any flat cookie/piece of chocolate will work, use whatever you want a tombstone to look like). Place the Ritter Sport in the bread, deep enough so it will stay in place but leaving enough visible that, well, it looks like a tombstone. Apply green icing to the bread as to mimic grass, or come to think of it now that I’ve cooked this, slime. Either one seems Halloween applicable (most cemeteries still have grass as far as I know). Lastly, unpackage those handy Happy Birthday candles and instead spell out R.I.P. right below the chocolate tombstone. Spooky.