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Cupcake Baking and Protocols (Written by Pinkie!)

Hey Apple Bloom! Seeing as how you'll one day get the opportunity to bake on your own, I thought it would make sense to give you a copy of my recipe for cupcakes. Hope this helps!

-Pinkie :)

P.S. Make sure to hide this in a very secret place and make sure no pony ever sees it.

Cupcake Ingredients: 1/2 Stick of Butter 2 Large Eggs 3 Teaspoons of Vanilla Extract 1 Cup of Whole Milk 2 1/2 Cups Flour 1 Cup Powdered Sugar 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder 1/3 Cup of Confetti Sprinkles (optional) 1/3 Cup of "Special Ingredient" (Important!)

Frosting Ingredients: 1/2 Stick of butter (room temperature) 2 Cups of Sifted Sugar 1 1/2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract 2 Tablespoons of Milk 3 or more Drops of Food Color (optional)

Tools Required: Large Mixing Bowl 2 Small Mixing Bowls (1 for wet ingredients and the other for frosting) Measuring Cup Measuring Spoons Small Mixing Spoon Stand Mixer (If broken, use a whisk!) 2 Piping Bags (for both the batter and the frosting) Cupcake/Muffin Tin Cupcake Wrappers (Preferably the glittery ones)

Baking Process: Start by melting half a stick of butter in the microwave for 1 minute. If it's not soft enough then put it in for another 30 seconds. Once it's soft enough, put it into a small bowl with two large eggs, 3 teaspoons vanilla extract, and 1 cup of whole milk. Mix them together until they are at a thorough consistency.

In the large bowl, add 2 and a half cups of flour, 1 cup powdered sugar, and 1 teaspoon of baking powder. Pour the wet ingredients into the large bowl and mix for 6 minutes until combined. Then you add the confetti sprinkles and the "Special ingredient".

Once everything has been mixed thoroughly you pour the mixture into one of the piping bags. You then line the Cupcake tin with the wrappers before using the piping bag to fill them with the batter. Set the oven to 350F and pop them in the oven for 18-20 minutes.

While they're baking, let's make the frosting! In a small bowl, mix half a stick of room temperature butter, 2 cups of sifted sugar, 1 and a half teaspoons of vanilla extract, and 2 tablespoons of milk until smooth and consistent. You can also add a few drops of food dye for color but that's optional. Make sure to put the frosting in the other piping bag so you can use it to frost the cakes!

When the cupcakes are done baking, take them out of the oven with an oven mitten and wait for them to cool off. Then you take them out and frost them before placing them on a tray for the customers to enjoy!

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Acquiring the "Special Ingredient": Over time you'll start to run out of the Special Ingredient. Lucky for you this super secret part of the recipe is here to teach you how to get the Special Ingredient that has everypony loving my Cupcakes! :D

In one of the drawers in my room is a jar filled with pieces of confetti. Each one has a number dedicated to a pony in Ponyville. Along with the number is a name and a brief description of what they look like that includes their coat/mane color, if their a Unicorn or Pegasus or Earth Pony, and their Cutie Mark.

Once every week, I will select a piece of confetti from the jar so I know who I'll be harvesting that week. Mr and Mrs Cake most of the time make Saturday their date night, but they do occasionally do their date nights on Wednesdays. During the 3-4 hours they're out of the bakery I ask the pony to visit Sugarcube Corner to help taste test some baked goods (usually new cupcake flavors) to see if they could be sold. While I do use their feedback for the baked goods, what they don't know is that I crushed up some sleepy pills into their frosting. The best part of it is that they're tasteless so they won't even know what hit them!

When they fall asleep I take them into a room separate from the basement and strap them down to the party table. If they're a Unicorn, you gotta saw off their horn before they wake up. By the time they wake up is when the fun begins.

I start by removing their Cutie Marks with a knife, if they don't have one you skip that part all together. If they're a Pegasus I'll use a saw to saw off their wings. What happens next is whatever I feel like doing that day, but we must refrain from making them faint more than once. It's rare to find ponies who sell adrenaline on the dark market, and I don't wanna run out, my guests wouldn't be able to witness their harvesting if that happened!

Oh right, the Harvesting Process!

After you're done playing with them, you cut open their stomach and start to remove their organs. I usually like to make jokes as I do it. While removing them, the heart and lungs have to be saved for the end so they can feel EVERYTHING happening. The organs aren't used for the special ingredient so I just use them for decorations like balloons. What is used however is their flesh and blood.

Once the last organ is pulled they'll die in a matter of seconds! I'll handle skinning them and removing their flesh, but you'll have to help in draining them of their blood ahead of time. You'll need to fill the bucket at least halfway but it's ok if they don't have enough. Once that part is finished and the meat is put through a grinder, we mix them together before putting them in a container that is hidden in a secret part of the kitchen's fridge (cant have Mr and Mrs Cake know).

Just remember what you read and you'll have no problem baking!

I even attached a photo of the first ever Cupcake I made. The unicorn I used for them taught me a lot about how to deal with other types of ponies, and they were really colorful!