Chop the chocolate and melt it over a warm water bath, let it cool down lukewarm
Peel and quarter the apples and cut out the core. Carve the apple quarters several times on the curves. Drizzle apple quarters with lemon juice. Peel ginger and grate finely
Whip the fat, salt, sugar and vanilla pulp until creamy. Stir in the eggs one after the other. Mix flour, baking powder and cocoa and stir in alternately with the cream. Mix in chocolate, ginger, cinnamon and a little nutmeg. Fill chocolate dough into a greased springform pan (26 cm Ø), smooth it down. Place the apple quarters on the cake with the round side facing upwards and bake in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for approx. 45 minutes.) Take out and let cool down
Heat the jam and pass through a sieve. Remove the cake from the oven and remove from the edge of the mould. Brush apples with jam. Let the cake cool down
Waiting time approx. 1 hour