I halved my earlier recipe to make muffins for Eric . He 's coming up today and I wanted to have something sugary and tasty waiting here for him in addition to his usual request of a pot of white rice . The recipe halves nicely , but I only had a quarter cup of strawberries once I 'd hulled and diced them all .
According to the above context, choose the best option to answer the following question.
Question: Why did they make muffins for Eric ?
Options:
- None of the above choices .
 - They wanted to surprise Eric .
 - They wanted to impress Eric .
 - They wanted Eric to like them .


They wanted to surprise Eric .