Apple cake

This is a sad period for the entire world and if I see that flour is hardly available in the shops, the whole of France is Baking! We still had some flour suitable for an apple cake and although I won't make it to the 'Great British Bake-off', it tasted good.
You know me, so I have changed the recipe a little, because I didn't have everything and then you have to be creative. I have used a sort of flattish baking tray.
So here it is and I hope you'll enjoy it.

Shopping list :

250 gr real butter

250 gr sugar

250 gr self-raising flour

4 eggs  (it's sounds a lot but you need them)

2 tbsp custard or 2 tbsp cornflour + vanilla extract*

pinch of cinnamon

2-3 apples (I had Pink Ladies and used 2 apples, so don't peel them all at once)

Ginger syrup or apricot jam to taste (I had apricot jam which need to be mixed with water)

* I used cornflour and a splash of caramel sauce and some lemon syrup (didn't have lemons) and it did the job as well.

How to prepare it: 

Preheat the oven to 170C

Grease a flat baking dish with butter and dust with flour or put a piece of baking paper in it.

Mix the butter with the sugar until creamy

Add the eggs one at a time, only add the next egg when the previous one has been completely absorbed.

Sieve the self-rising flour with the custard above the batter and mix it carefully.
Peel the apples, remove the cores and slice them.

Put the batter in the mold.

Place the apple slices in the cake batter and sprinkle with some cinnamon

Bake the apple cake for about 50 minutes and golden brown

As soon as it comes out of the oven, brush the apple cake with some ginger syrup or some apricot jam mixed in a bowl with a little water.

It had daughter's approval which is great, because she's the one who likes baking.