Eccles Cake

Ingredients

• 250 g pack butter , softened, plus extra for greasing
• 250 g soft light brown sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 4 large eggs
• 100 g plain flour
• 250 self-raising flour
• 100 buttermilk
• 2 eating apples , peeled, cored and diced to about 1cm pieces
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp mixed spice
• 1/4 tsp ground cloves
• zest 1 lemon
• 2 tbsp melted butter
• 2 tbsp soft light brown sugar
• 85 g currants
• 85 g raisins
• 50 g mixed peel
• 85 g icing sugar , sifted
• zest and juice 1 lemon
• 1 few sugar cubes , roughly crushed