Apple cake

Method

• Peel 2 apples and cut them into cubes, sprinkle with cinnamon and the juice of half a lemon and put apart
  
• Cut the other 3/4 apples in slices and sprinkle them with the juice of the other half of lemon and put a part  
  This allows them not to oxidize and turn dark (they will be used for decoration).
  
• Beat the two eggs and the sugar with an electric mixer for a few minutes at medium speed
• Add the soft butter (not cold from fridge)
  (You should leave the butter for 15 min. outside the fridge or put it for a few seconds in the microwave)
  
• Continue beating 
• Add the grated lemon peel
• Add the milk
• Add the flour, cornstarch, a pinch of salt and cinnamon
• Finally, add 1 teaspoon of baking powder and the diced apples left aside at the beginning
  Mix everything with a wooden spoon to make it all homogeneous
  
• Pour it into a cake pan (24 cm) previously greased with butter and dusted with flour
  (in this way it won’t stick)
• Heat the oven on static mode at 180 °C  (356 °F)
• With the sliced ​​apples, form a circle starting from the outside edge and gradually complete the rose decoration
• Sprinkle the surface with granulated sugar and cinnamon
• Bake for 45-50 min until the surface is golden
  
   Once taken out of the oven, let it cool down and then sprinkle with powdered sugar
• Create a glaze that makes it shiny
• mix 125 gr of water, 50 gr of sugar and 8 gr of cornstarch in a small pot
• heat until boiling
• brush the gelatin that you have made on the surface