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// Muffins 
// Story: Smiles for Derpy Hooves 
// by Pony Sigma 
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“Hi, Mr. and Mrs. Cake!” Pinkie greeted the bakery’s owners as she bounced through the door.
“Oh, hello, Pinkie Pie,” Mrs. Cake said, pushing a cart of pastries out of the kitchen. Mr. Cake smiled at Pinkie from behind the counter.
“Who’s this?” Mrs. Cake looked towards Derpy, who was fluttering in the air, playing with the bells hanging from the doorframe.
“Derpy Hooves! She’s my friend. We’re going to make muffins!”
“That’s nice, dearie, just try not to make too much of a mess. We’ve got special visitors coming this afternoon!”
“Don’t worry! Since when did I ever make a mess?” Pinkie Pie assured Mrs. Cake, who simply smiled in her long-suffering manner and nodded that Pinkie could continue. Pinkie turned back to Derpy, who was now staring at the many colorful pastries in the glass display.
“C’mon! Let’s get started!” Pinkie said. She turned and bounced into the kitchen, Derpy following behind.
"We've got all the ingredients here!" the pink pony said, "Flour, sugar, butter, blueberries-" She gasped as a new idea came to her.
"And sprinkles! You normally have sprinkles with cupcakes, but we can have them with muffins. I mean, who doesn't love sprinkles? It's like eating confetti! I love confetti! Do you like confetti?"
Derpy turned around to answer, knocking over a stack of muffin trays with her wings. They fell to the floor with a clatter, and the pegasus jumped back from the noise, falling into another pile of pots and pans.
She poked her nose out of the pile.
"I love confetti! It's all bright, and colorful, and bright..."
"Great! We'll make blueberry muffins with sprinkles!" Pinkie said, taking no notice of the mess. She bounced over to the cupboard and began to pull out the ingredients. While she did this, Derpy explored the room, peering over shelves and into bowls.
“Pinkie! What’s this?” she asked, pointing a hoof at a cooling rack stacked high with warm brown loaves.
“Banana bread! It’s a new recipe from some of the Cakes’ friends in Fillydelphia. The Princess’s new royal guard ponies love it, so she’s ordered a whole bunch. They’re coming to pick it up later!”
“Ooooh! That sounds yummy!” Derpy started jumping again. Pinkie turned back to her work, throwing a lump of butter into the bowl she had been working with.
“Now then, you just need to mix this up and we’ll be set! And then we can bake them! That takes a long time but I never get bored cause I can just sing a song and then it’s fun! And then you get to EAT the muffins, and that’s the best part!“ Pinkie explained without pausing for breath.
“Yay!” Derpy cheered. She took the bowl from Pinkie and started stabbing at it with the spoon. Bits of half-mixed batter flew around the room.  
“That’s not gonna work, you need to stir it!” Pinkie laughed, licking a chunk of batter off her nose.
The pegasus hovered above the bowl and started to spin the spoon, causing the bowl to go flying across the room. It crashed against the cupboards, the contents sticking to the wood and spilling on the floor. Luckily, the bowl didn’t break. Pinkie Pie picked it up and dropped it in the sink.
“What happened? What did I do wrong?” Derpy questioned, looking at the mess. Then she added sadly, “Now I won’t get to have any muffins.”
“Of course you’ll have muffins! We can make another batch!” Pinkie laughed, already busy pulling out a new bowl and new ingredients.