Divinity is my favorite Christmas candy. My Grandma Wanda was a fabulous candy maker and during the holidays I have fond memories of her kitchen counter filled with Christmas candy boxes filled with homemade candy. Last Christmas, I shared my grandma’s fudge candy recipe and grandma’s peanut crunch recipe. I didn’t have his divinity recipe, but this one tastes the same as I remember. If you’ve never tried divinity, I would describe it as a soft, sweet white nougat, a cross between fudge and a marshmallow.

* Ingredients :

° 21/2 cups sugar

° 1 cup water

° 1 cup light corn syrup

°  tsp. salt

° 2 egg whites

° 1 tsp. vanilla extract

° 1 cup chopped pecans, toasted

° Decorate : toasted pecan halves

* Directions :

1. Cooking first 4 ingdts in a heavy 2 quart saucepan on low heat until sugar melted also a candy thermometer  about 16 minutes . Remove syrup blending from heat.

2. Whisk  egg whites at tall speed with an electric mixer until stiff peaks create . Pour half hot syrup in slim  stream on  egg whites, beating persistently at high speed, for 6 min .

3. Cooking rest half syrup on medium heat, stirring, until a candy thermometer  about 5 to 6 min . Heavily pour hot syrup & vanilla extract on egg white blending, whisking ever at high speed until mixture holds its form . Stir in 1 cup ground pecans.

4. Fall mixture rapidly by rounded tea spoonfuls to softly greased wax paper. Decorate , if wanted . Cool .

ENJOY  !