4:00pm apple cake

I had a handful of apples getting too soft from my basis fruit delivery and rather than throw them out I thought I would whip up this German apple cake, or versunkener apfelkuchen, that I had once (rather successfully so I thought) made for Rosh Hashanah. But oops I only had 1 stick of butter and 5 apples, not quite the full amount required by the recipe. No matter, I halved everything and threw it in a round cake pan instead of a bundt pan and presto! Actually I wasn't really sure it would be that good, but it turned out surprisingly nice.