Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips

What do you do when you have over-ripe bananas? Make banana bread—of course! But I remember when I baked my first banana bread ever, I didn't know that little "secret." The result of that lack of knowledge was a bread sorely lacking in banana flavor, and if I recall correctly, it was not very tasty. =( Thankfully, I eventually wised up to the problem, and now I can bake up a fine banana bread like the rest of them. :)
The last time I found myself left with a couple of those blackening bananas, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to try a new banana bread recipe. ;) So I headed on over to my favorite recipe site, Epicurious.com, and found the instructions to make the highly rated Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips and Walnuts.

I made the recipe twice. The first time I followed the list of ingredients exactly as written, which gave me a moist bread but one that was much too sweet. Thinking it was worth trying again, the second time I reduced the amount of sugar to half, which resulted in a bread that was not quite as moist but rose more. Though not as sugary as before, I still thought that the sugar could be reduced more. Other than that, it was good; tasty enough to make again the next time I have overly ripe bananas.