Wash lemon, grate peel, squeeze juice. Wash apples, quarter them, cut out the core. Cut two quarters into thin slices, carve the remaining quarters several times.
Drizzle apples with lemon juice. For the sponge mixture, mix the fat and sugar with the whisk of the hand mixer until creamy. Stir in the eggs one after the other. Season with cinnamon and lemon peel. Mix flour, baking powder and grated coconut and stir into the dough alternately with the milk.
Spread on a greased baking tray. Put apples on top as a tree. Decorate with drained cherry apples. Bake in the preheated oven (electric: 175 °C/ gas: level 2) for 30 minutes. Then sprinkle with sugar crystals.
Leave to cool and decorate as desired with apple leaves. Makes 25 pieces. Delicious with vanilla cream.