Hot fruit is a recipe based on canned fruit. It is simple and was used much during the winter months when fresh fruit was not available. Canned fruit was simply poured into a saucepan and heated. Various spices, sugar, and cornstarch for thickening could make a simple can of pineapple into a dessert. Many would actually serve hot fruit at room temperature.Amy Sedaris offers up humorous recipes for "Hot Fruit" in her cookbook I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, in addition to making fun of it in her show Strangers with Candy.Sedaris is currently working on a new book, a light-hearted sex manual based largely on her own experiences. It too will contain numerous recipes for hot fruit.

Here are three delicious, dessert recipes to try out which feature real vanilla beans and vanilla extract. Vanilla sugar, vanilla infused hot chocolate and vanilla bean pudding.

Hot chocolate can be a delicious and comforting beverage, especially during cold winter months. If chilled, however, you'll have a refreshing drink or possibly a dessert depending on how you dress it up.

East and delicious recipe for the traditional German/Austrian dessert, apple strudel. I have been making this recipe for years and it never fails me. Serve it hot with some vanilla ice cream or some creme anglaise over the holidays!

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A perfect dessert drink for you, the kids and your refraining from alcohol friends during the upcoming holiday season!