This divinity is so easy to make in the microwave and so good. You won’t ever make it any other way again! Makes a great gift, too.
2 cups white sugar
1/3 cup water
1/3 cup light corn syrup
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 egg whites
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup pecans or nuts of your choice, chopped
Combine sugar, water, corn syrup and salt in a glass casserole dish. Cover with saran wrap and microwave on high for 5 minutes. Remove from microwave and take off saran wrap. Stir well and return to microwave uncovered. Cook on high for another 4 to 5 minutes until reaches hard ball stage when a little is dropped in cold water. Remove and cool about 4 minutes. Beat egg whites until stiff with mixer. Pour sugar mixture over egg whites beating constantly with mixer until mixture starts to lose its gloss and holds together. About 4 or 5 minutes. Stir in vanilla and nuts. Drop by teaspoonful onto wax paper. Makes about 25 pieces depending on size you make them. Enjoy!
Note: To clean glass bowl you used in microwave soak in warm soapy water immediately after emptying sugar mixture.
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Your divinity is so pretty. I have such a time dropping them onto the wax paper so that they look pretty. Any suggestions? Thank you.
I just used a teaspoon and a wooden spoon and kind of pushed it off with the wooden spoon.
this is far most the easiest reciepe for divinity!!! made some for Christmas for the family and it was a hit!!! made some just a few minutes ago for us so yummie !!!!
I make microwave peanut brittle & just before I get it out of microwave to spread I spray the back of a large tablespoon with butter Pam & it helps to spread it easier. This might work with the divinity which I am going to try. Love this site.
Are the pecans (or nuts in general) optional by chance? If so, will these turn out differently if they are not added; meaning consistency or texture change?
The nuts can be left out with no problem.
Delicious!!!!!! <3
I never heard of divinity but it looks good and healthy, You made lot with just two egg whites.. What do you do with the yolk??
Ha, Ha, I made and egg sandwich!
you could also just use the yolk to make the stuff that normally goes in devil eggs and just use it on bread or crackers
That sounds good, too, Jennifer.
The old rule of thumb for making divinity (or so I always heard) was not to make it on a rainy or moist day. Any truth to that, or do you know?
It was raining here just a couple of days ago when I made this. I did not have a problem.
What wattage is your microwave?
1,000 watts
Thanks! Can’t wait to try it!
What is saran wrap?
It is a clear plastic wrap that you can use in the microwave and also use to cover dishes in the fridge or wrap food in for storing.
Thank you. We call it Glad Wrap in Australia.
I know from my southern family members and elders that the temperature and/or humidity of the day affects the turn out. Is this true with these? Thanks.
It was raining here when I made these and I had no problem.
My Mother used to worry about the humidity when making these! I wish she could see how easy these are to make now. I miss my Mother!
can you add food coloring for holidays
Yes, you can.
My momma always used black walnuts in her divinity. I can hardly wait to try this recipe!!
Can this be made a couple of weeks before Christmas and still be good?
I don’t know if it will keep that long. I do keep mine in the fridge and it keeps well. We never have it last for 2 weeks.
I would like the recipe I saw on this site, for Texas Sheet Cake. It read recipes from Texas. I tried to get back to it, but was unable to.
Thanks for your help!
To get to that page, just type “Texas Recipes” in the search box on the blog. Here is the link, too, and the recipe is down the page a bit: http://thesouthernladycooks.com/kentucky-recipes/texas-recipes/
I see plastic wrap over the candy in the microwave. I am afraid of the plastic melting/leaching into food. Will glass lids over corning ware act the same way for this recipe?
I am sure you could use glass lids.
This looks so easy. My Mom made penuche, choc. fudge and divinity every year at this time. I made divinity for my neighbor once, and burned out the motor on my mixer and haven’t made it since. Guess i’ll give this a try.
Balisha
This is so easy Balish and I can’t leave it alone. Hope you and Joe have a wonderful Christmas.
I burned up two mixers trying to make the divinity my mother used to make for my son too..lol. I made divinity something like this but it had a little vinegar in it. It tasted good, but I think I mixer it a tad too long and it got harder than I wanted it too and didn’t look as pretty, but tasted good…….will have to try this one.
Could you add in maraschino cherry juice to make cherry flavored?
I guess you could but not promising anything since I have never tried doing it.
Don’t make this, biggest mess I’ve ever seen. Followed directions exactly, turned out to be biggest sticky mess I’ve ever seen. Need two people, one to hold the wax paper down and one to try to get it off the spoons. Threw most of it away, if I can get it out of the bowl. It wasn’t white,light tan. Wasted, wasted!
So sorry you were not able to make this recipe and this happened to you. I made the batch in the photo by myself with no problem getting it off the spoon and you can see it is white in the photo. I can’t imagine what happened to yours.
mine took a lot longer to get to hard ball stage and luckily I had a thermometer that my have been the problem, it took mine 6-7 min to reach hard ball and if it was made before hitting that stage it would not have turned out. Mine was slighly tan until I mixed it enough and then it turned white (dont know what must of been the eggs). Mine is cooling cant wait to eat its my first time ever making it. I grew up on it but remeber my dad always having a hard time making it! this was so easy just took time making sure it got hot enough.
Crystal
With most anything ooey gooey, Dab a bit in each corner of the cookie sheet, under the wax paper to help hold the wax paper in place, making it easier to drop by rounded spoonfulls onto that wax paper.
Will it make a difference seeing how my microwave doesn’t have a revolving center? It doesn’t go around; it’s stationary.
I don’t know because mine does revolve. I would think you could turn the bowl a few times while it is cooking. I don’t think it would.
this looks wonderful
may try
this easy recipe…
when you say white sugar do you mean powdered sugar or just regular sugar
Regular sugar.
i have got to try this! I have been making divinity for years- yet have never had a batch turn out unless it was cold and dry outside. I will let know how it does for me in Mississippi!
Thanks for sharing this recipe! I definitely want to make some for gifts! It looks so good!
I tried the Divinity recipe today & it turned out beautiful. I dropped it by teaspoon fulls on the wax paper & did use the wooden spoon. After it had firmed up I went back & shaped it to have a smoother finish. Excellent recipe!!!!!! Thanks so much for posting it.
Hi Frances, So happy you are enjoying this recipe. Thank you for your great comment and for being a part of the site. I love this stuff and it makes a great gift.
how necessary is the corn syrup? my grandmother has the same recipe, but no corn syrup and no water, ive had a hard time getting them to be fluffy, i also make them in the oven not the microwave…… we call them meringues or puff cookies
Since you are making this in microwave, I don’t think it would work at all if you left out the corn syrup and water.
my first attempt was a disaster…However, I am wanting to try again..as soon as I put my sugar mixture into the mixer with the eggs it became so hard I couldn’t mix it…does that mean I didn’t let it cool long enough?? also, do it matter if you have a hand mixer or stand?? I really want to make this, I just need a little help..
I can’t imagine what you are doing wrong. I use a hand mixer to make it, so I know that is not the problem. Are you pouring it into the stiff egg whites just a little at a time while you are mixing the entire time? Maybe, you cooked the syrup too long. Test it at 5 or 6 minutes to see if it has reached the hard ball stage when dropped in cold water. Make sure you beat the egg whites till stiff, too.
Mine turned to stone while I let it sit for four minutes!
could this be made in a glass measuring cup instead of a casserole?
You would need a very large measuring cup.
What should the divinity’s consistency be when finished? I have made two batches and both were gooey, especially on the bottom. They taste fantastic, but stick to our fingers.
You can see that mine is in the container kind of stacked on each other. I would not put them on top of each other if they were sticky. It should be where you can pick it up and it not stick to your fingers. You can see from the comments that some people make this and it turns out great and some had problems. I guess divinity is not that easy but I have never had any trouble with it. I tried to post the pictures so you all could see how it is done. Sorry this happened to you.
I have made the recipe 4 times in the last 10 days. Mine was a little sticky until the last time. I beat the mixture a minute longer to which helped. Love the receipt & my family & friends do too.
My mother used to make Divinity at Christmas time when I was growing up, but I remember she stopped making it after one year when it almost burned up her old hand mixer trying to mix it in the last step. It was good though! Can’t wait to try this!
The vanilla might have made the tanish color if it didn’t get mixed in good enough. Anybody that has problems, try to make it when there is no humidity.