Almond Spice Cake

I have made this cake this afternoon. For quite a while I had thought the recipe included fruit, but the other day, I read it through properly and realised that there is no fruit in it at all. It does have a layer of marzipan through the middle of it though, rather like the simnel cake.
The cake was easy to make, and looked great, however, we were rather disappointed with the taste. It was moist, and the texture was fine, it just had quite an unusual taste because of the dried cloves. Not sure we are going to manage all of this one! We gave it only 6.5
P.s For those of you who think, what a mess, when you look at the photo, the picture in the book looks quite like this. Mary says that the topping should run down the sides! There is clearly too  much of it, hence the big puddle!