Be The Star of The Holidays with this Old Fashioned Divinity Recipe!

Divinity just “says” Christmas to me!  For as long as I can remember, from the time I was a very little girl, I remember Christmas being a time of lots of candy and cookie making, especially Mom’s Old Fashioned Divinity Candy and Fudge.  But goodness … it doesn’t have to be Christmas time to make divinity or fudge!  Homemade candies can make ANY day special!

I didn’t use the old fashioned divinity recipe during our early years of marriage because that was mom’s thing at Christmas and she loved making it and giving it away.  But when her health began to fail, I took on the chore of making tons and tons of divinity and fudge each year and giving it away.

Mom just had a knack for making Divinity but white was just too bland for her.  Oh she’d make lots of white but then she always had to make extra and tint it pink or green or blue.  Mom was all about color  🙂

Have you ever made Divinity?  I’ve been seeing quite a few posts on facebook of people asking if anyone knows how to make real divinity.  Several have said they’ve tried it but can’t get it to ‘set’ and make candy.  So I thought I’d do this recipe for everybody today.  There is a secret to getting it to ‘set’ but it is so easy – a child could do it if it didn’t involve a hot stove.

So here we go – our old fashioned divinity recipe this is what you need and this is how you need to MIX it so it will set into perfect divinity – every single time.

How to Make Divinity Candy

Old Fashioned Divinity Recipe

2 1/2 cups sugar

1/2 cup light corn syrup

1/2 cup water

1/4 tsp salt

2 egg whites

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup chopped pecans and or cherries (optional)

In a saucepan – combine sugar, corn syrup, water and salt.  Start out with a slow simmer and progress to a boil and cook … stirring often, until when you pull your spoon up out of the mixture … a hair like string of the sugary mixture will fly from your spoon. THEN dip spoon once again and drop 1 ‘drop’ of the hot mixture in a cup of water.  IF IT MAKES A HARD BALL IN THE WATER … that part is ready … and that’s your secret.  That drop MUST make the hard ball in the water, for the divinity to set properly.

Just before I start the simmering … I beat the egg whites to form stiff peaks … add vanilla to egg white and beat again a bit.  Your sugar mixture should be simmering during this time … so let it go ahead and go to a boil now and keep stirring it until you can form that little ball in the water.

When your sugar mixture is ready … slowly start stirring it into the egg whites … beating at high speed with the electric mixer as you pour. Now this mixture is scalding hot, so be careful!!!

When the candy will hold it’s shape … after about 4-5 minutes … add the nuts and cherries if you want them and quickly drop candy by the teaspoon full onto waxed paper … or I use very lightly … VERY LIGHTLY buttered foil paper.  Swirl the top of each candy as you drop it from the spoon.    Set aside …

This is so easy.  The real trick is just getting the sugar mixture to the right stage so when you drop that drop into the water it forms a ball.

Then go hand it out to all your neighbors and friends at church and your kids school teachers and when they say “YOU can make DIVINITY?”… Just say “Ooooooooooooooooohhh it was nothing …”  🙂