Eccles cake - Good Food Middle East

Ingredients

• 250g pack butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
• 250g soft light brown sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 4 large eggs
• 100g plain flour
• 250g self-raising flour
• 100g buttermilk
• 2 eating apples, peeled, cored and diced to about 1cm pieces
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp mixed spice
• ¼ tsp ground cloves
• zest 1 lemon
• 2 tbsp melted butter
• 2 tbsp soft light brown sugar
• 85g currants
• 85g raisins
• 50g mixed peel
• 85g icing sugar, sifted
• zest and juice 1 lemon
• a few sugar cubes, roughly crushed