Rice Pudding with Hot Cherry Sauce

Many Danish families will eat ris à l’amande for pudding on Christmas Eve – a traditional dessert of cold rice pudding combined with vanilla, almonds and whipped cream and served with a hot cherry sauce. My family are a little different – we eat rice pudding as a starter on Christmas Eve, with cinnamon and sugar on top, or in my father’s case, he loved single (light) cream and white sugar. My darling godmother Kirsten often makes rice pudding for my children, as she made it for my si