Banana Bread with cinnamon sugar filling

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Cook Time: 60 minutes

I just love bananas and any cake with bananas are my all time favourite.. this cake is another delicacy with the cinnamon sugar filling.. the original recipe had a frosting on top but am not a fan of any extra rich frosting or cream.. I love tea cakes as they are

Ingredients

For the cake batter :

• 100 gms butter

• 60 gms powdered sugar

• 75 gms condensed milk

• 50 gms cream cheese

• 1 tsp vanilla essence

• 75 gms yoghurt

• 200 gms very ripe bananas mashed

• 1 tsp baking powder

• 1 tsp baking soda

• pinch of salt

• 200 gms Maida

• 60 ml milk

For the cinnamon sugar filling :

• 100 gms powdered sugar

• 2 tbsp cinnamon powder

Instructions

1. Mash the bananas and keep aside

2. Mix the cinnamon powder and sugar well and keep aside

3. In a large bowl, take butter, sugar, condensed milk, cream cheese and vanilla essence and beat this nicely with a hand mixer for 2 mins

4. Add the mashed bananas and yogurt and mix on medium speed for another minute

5. Sift in the maida, baking powder, soda, salt and fold it gently mixing everything well

6. Add milk slowly little by little mixing it well till it forms a thick spreadable batter

7. Line and grease a 7x7" square pan

8. Spread half the batter well

9. Sprinkle a thick layer of the cinnamon sugar covering the batter well

10. Spread the rest of the batter covering the cinnamon sugar well

11. Tap it a few times and bake this in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 30-35 mins till the tooth pick comes out clean

12. Cool completely and then cut into small squares

13. Have it with hot chai, a heavenly combo!!