Chocolate apple cake

Today I remembered why I prefer cooking blogs over cook books or cooking magazines. What happened? I'll tell you. I found a recipe in a magazine and wanted to bake it. I checked if I have all the ingredients and went to work. In the middle of the process I noticed that one of the ingredients was not mentioned during the description of the preparation steps. But this could not be. Well, I'm no longer a beginner, and I know where I need to use (flour in this case) this ingredient. But the magazine praises the fact that this recipe is ideal for beginners. So if I were a beginner, I would not have known where I have to use the flour...or I would have certainly left it out...and that's annoying. Then I discovered a second error...the baking temperature was not specified. Oh great! I'm not saying that the food bloggers don’t make such mistakes. But you can write a comment and inform the blogger.

Through my experience, I still managed to bake the cake. As I said, for someone with some experience, those errors are not so dramatic, but they are for a beginner. Or do you disagree? 

Here is the recipe: 

You need:

125 g butter 

125 g sugar 

2 tbps vanilla sugar 

3 eggs 

200 g flour 

50 g cacao 

50 ml milk 

2-5 apples (depending on size) 

1 tsp baking powder 

1 pinch of salt 

lemon juice

This is how we proceed:
Preheat over to 170 degrees.

Add butter, sugar and vanilla sugar in a bowl and stir. Add eggs and salt and continue to stir.

In a second bowl combine flour, cocoa and baking powder and sift them to the dough. Mix well. Add milk and stir.

Wash, peel and core the apples. Cut into slices and sprinkle them with lemon juice.

Grease a loaf pan, flour it and distribute 1/3 of the dough in it. Distribute apple vertically in the dough. Cover with the remaining batter and bake for 35 minutes.

Let the cake cool down and serve.

And now my question: what do you prefer: cook blogs or cook books/ magazines?