Blueberry Cream cheese loaf

This blueberry loaf was an awesome one. The cake is smooth and moist and just melts in your mouth. The best part was the layer of cream cheese in between and the flavor that the orange zest adds. Try it at home and you surely will fall in love with this.

Ingredients:

For the loaf batter - 

• All purpose flour          - 1 and 1/2 cups + 1 Tbsp for dusting the berries
• Butter                             - 1/2 cup, at room temperature
• Sugar                              - 1/2 cup
• Eggs                                - 2
• Vanilla extract              - 1 tsp
• Baking powder             - 1 tsp
• Salt                                  - 1/4 tsp
• Milk                                - 1/3 cup 
• Blueberries                   - 1 and 1/2 cups

For the filling - 

• Cream cheese             - 8 Oz
• Sugar                            - 1/2 cup
• Orange zest                 - 1 tsp
• Egg                                - 1
• All purpose flour        - 1 Tbsp

Method:

1. To prepare the filling take all the ingredients in a bowl. Beat using an electric beater till smooth and peaks formed. Keep aside.

2. Preheat the oven at 350F.
3. To prepare the batter - in a mixing bowl cream butter and sugar until fluffy. 
4. Break in the eggs in the mixture. Add salt and vanilla. Beat until smooth and creamy.
5. In a separate bowl add flour and baking powder and mix well.
6. Add in the flour mixture and milk alternately to the egg mixture and beat till smooth batter in formed.
7. Coat blueberries with flour and add them in batter. Fold them in gently.

8. Grease the loaf pan with butter and dust with flour.
9. Pour half the batter in the loaf pan.
10. Add the layer of filling over the batter.
11. Add the remaining batter on top.

12. Bake for 50-60 minutes till toothpick inserted comes out clean.