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Banana Cake (Bread)

Ingredients


4 extra ripe bananas
2 cups Maida
1 cup white butter
1/2 tin condensed milk
1/2 cup sugar ( 1/4th cup castor sugar + 1/4th cup regular sugar if castor sugar is available)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon edible soda
1 teaspoon Vanilla essence
1/4th glass of milk and water mixture at  room temperature
1 pinch salt
1 tsp curd
Butter paper \white paper to line your baking tin
Baking Tin
1 tbsp butter to line the tin

Method

1. Sift the maida ,baking powder, salt and soda together three times in a sieve and keep it aside.
2. Whisk butter to a nice fluffy consistency.
3. Add both sugars and condensed milk to the white butter and whisk it all together with a hand whisk. 
4. Crush the bananas using a fork head to nice pulp or you can churn it in a mixer if you don't want chunky bits in cake.
5. Now mix the bananas to the sugar and butter mixture.
6. Add 1 tsp of vanilla essence or extract.
7.  Slowly fold the dry ingredients to the butter mixture.
8. Make a soft flowing cake batter. If the batter is thick add some glass and milk mixture to the batter.
9. Line a tin with butter and butter paper.
10. Fill half the tin with cake batter.
11. Bake  at 180 degrees Celsius for 30 to 40 minutes. Check the cake with a toothpick to see if it is done . The toothpick should come out clean. This indicates that the cake is done.

Enjoy the banana bread with tea.

You can drizzle the cake with some sugar frosting or serve with a scoop of vaniila icecream :)


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