This is one of my autumn-cakes series again - havier and sweeter than the summer fruit cakes. The other day we went to pick up the wild apples for our horses. In Czech republic there is plenty of wild apple trees growing at the country and beside the roads. They provide free food for animals and humans too. People are harvesting these apples and mostly driving them to the apple juice companies, that make a variety of flavoured and unflavoured apple juices, that can be served cold or hot.  When we picked up the apples for our horses, we realised that these apples actually tasted really great, so we also harvested aples directly from the tree to store for our own use during the winter. And since I couldn't resist, I made a gingerbread apple tart for the afternoon snack. For the sponge cake recipe I got inspired by Lorraine Elliot, even though I adjusted her recipe to suit my purpose and taste prefferences.