Delicate Divinity

Divinity in the Microwave!  Sure it's possible!  I've been doing it for years.  I would love to say "never fail", but mine this year~~~~guess what?  It failed!  But you know what?   I made the best of it and I am going to still give you the recipe.  Take a look at what I did!

DIVINITY

 

Ingredients:

2 cups sugar

1/3 Light Corn Syrup

1/2 cup Water

2 Egg Whites

1 tsp Vanilla Extract

1/2 cup Pecans Chopped

 

Directions:

 

Combine Sugar, Corn Syrup and Water in 4-6 cup Microwavable bowl

Cook on HI for 3 minutes

Stir

Beat egg whites until stiff while continuing to cook syrup

Cook on HI for 6-8 minutes or until a small amount of syrup forms a ball in cold water

SLOWLY pour syrup into the egg whites continuously beating on high

Add vanilla

Beat until mixture looses it's shine-could take 8 minutes

Fold in Nuts

Drop by spoonful onto wax paper

 

Okay so there you have it, Good luck!  Divinity is finicky...

 

This year, mine never wanted to whip up enough to spoon out.  I decided to beat a little longer with the nuts already folded in.  This caused the nuts to become completely embedded in the mixture, not just folded in.  When I drop them on the wax paper, guess what?  They still were not firm enough, so I decided to use a Back Up Plan!

TA-DA   I just place a Whole pecan on the top of each spoon drop and they did actually firm up over night!  I know they don't look like your typical piece of divinity, but hey they taste just the same and I believe they are somewhat unique!