Preheat oven to 180°C and butter and line the base of a springform tin.
Place cream, eggs, almond extract, vanilla bean paste and salt into the Thermomix bowl. Whip 1 min/Butterfly/speed 4. Remove Butterfly.
Add remaining cake ingredients except apples and blend 20 sec/speed 4. Spread in the cake tin and arrange the apples on top.
Bake 45 minutes.
Meanwhile without cleaning, place all topping ingredients except the almonds into the Thermomix bowl and cook 5 min/90°C/speed 1. Add almonds and combine 4 sec/Reverse/speed 1.
Spread on top of the cooked cake and cook a further 15 minutes. Some of the mix may fall through the middle of the cake, don't worry, it will be in the centre when you cut the cake.
Serve with cream or ice cream.