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🎄🎧Season 4 Episode 4 ✨Christmas Lights✨
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🎄🎧Season 4 Episode 4 ✨Christmas Lights✨

🕯️Wintery words + poetry lanterns

Friends, December is upon us, which means meterological winter has arrived here in the northern hemisphere. This episode, Season 4 Episode 4 ‘Christmas Lights’, is all about words, because winter is my favourite time of year for writing. It’s so cosy to light a candle, read some poetry, get out your notebook and write, and I hope this episode inspires you to do just that. It’s a beautiful way to bring some calm to the chaos of the holiday season.

This episode includes:

❄️Reasons why writing is a good idea (as if you needed a reason!)

❄️Three simple ways to get the words flowing

❄️A beautiful candlelight meditation

❄️An invitation to get outside to seek creative inspiration

❄️ My youngest daughter’s Chocolate Orange Wreath Cake recipe

❄️Get ahead tips to help you arrive for the holidays feeling calm and prepared

I hope this podcast will be a lantern guiding you through the darkness of winter, and your words are a companion along the way.

Beth Xx

PS You can also tune in on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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Ingredients for the recipe shared

For the cake

  • Three eggs

  • The weight of three eggs in self-raising flour, caster sugar, unsalted butter, then remove about three tablespoons of the flour, and replace it with the same weight in cocoa powder

For the icing

  • 200g unsalted butter

  • 320g icing sugar

  • 80g cocoa powder

  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

  • A 100g bar of cooking chocolate, melted gently over a bain marie

  • Sprinkles – we like blue and white

  • A Terry’s Chocolate Orange or an orange chocolate bar, ideally with segment shapes

Discussion about this podcast

Beth Kempton's Calm Christmas Substack
The Calm Christmas Podcast with Beth Kempton
🎄A beautiful seasonal Substack publication by Beth Kempton (bestselling self-help author and host of the UK's #1 favourite Christmas podcast)🌟 intended to be a lantern leading you through the darkness of winter ❤️ (Nov-early Jan only)