Mama's Divinity

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Great recipe! My daughter had an assignment for her fifth grade class to create a unique candy. We adjusted this recipe by leaving out the nuts, adding some drops of purple, green, and pink food coloring, and topping the divinity with fruity pebbles! I'll try it for Christmas as it is written, and I can hardly wait! Thanks, Paula!! We set the bowl in a larger bowl and surrounded the mixing bowl with ice. I only had to mix for about 5-7 minutes using my $10.00 Wal-Mart mixer. We also put the candy in a zip-lock and squeezed it onto the wax paper in that manner. I squeezed, and she cut the candy off with a lightly buttered knife. Great mother-daughter event!

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I tried this recipe last week, and mine also came out a little too soft. I think I should have cooked it a little longer. The taste was definitely there though. So I ate it with a spoon.:

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I checked my 50 year old Betty Crocker cook book that I got in high school and the recipe in my book is exactly like Ms. Deen's except Ms. Deen uses 2 cups of nuts.

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I tried this recipe and it came out just a teensy bit too soft (it was probably a bit too humid. It just wouldn't hold it's shape. Since I hate to throw food away, I stuck the whole bowl of it in the fridge, and the next day it had stiffened up enough to stay in balls, but they melted when I left them on the counter. My mom had the brilliant idea to dip the balls in melted semi-sweet chocolate, and it's so good, I don't think I'll ever make plain divinity again! So if your divinity fails, try this before tossing the whole batch down the drain.

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My divinity turned out "rubbery"... :(
What did I do wrong?
I don't think it's the recipe....I think I def did something wrong although I followed the directions carefully.
Any ideas?

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This was my first atempt and I viewed Paula's video first. It was the lifeline! I followed everything exactly right down to the temperature and the 2 cups of chopped pecans. Only thing differently was that I used a 2 oz. cookie scoop on waxed paper. They set up fantastically! Will definitely do this again. My husband thought they were just like his Mama's!

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I made this on Christmas Eve. The only thing I changed was the pecans - rather than adding them to the candy, I put a pecan half on every piece. I LOVE pecans, but didn't have enough to mix in the candy AND put on top because I ate half the bag while making the candy! hahaha!
My hand mixer pooped out within the first 3 minutes, so I did the rest by hand with a wooden spoon. TALK ABOUT EXERTING! After a couple of blisters, 'noodle arms' and the lack of desire to move for the rest of the night..... I tried a piece. It turned out SO great! I was pleasantly surprised at how fluffy and wonderful the texture was since I mixed it by hand. It would probably be fluffier if my mixer didn't die on me, but I'm darn pleased with the recipe!
Oh, the memories it brings back of growing up in Texas!

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I never thought I'd make a Paula Deen recipe without a "sticka butta" but my sister -in-law and I made this today and it is fantastic! I read all the reviews before making - definitely recommend reading other users' ideas. Here's our tips
- boil to 255 degrees and test a drop of the candy in a small bowl of ice water to ensure it comes to a hard ball stage before you take it off the burner
- do not stir between the sugar melting and the hard ball stage (as the recipe says
- pour VERY slowly into your mixing bowl. Recommend a stand mixer because otherwise there's NO way you could do this alone.
- use small flexible icepacks to cool the bowl, cuts down on mixing time
- definitely mix more than 5 minutes - until the candy is dull and forms peaks (just when it starts to conform to the mixer attachment. We mixed about 14 minutes.
- add vanilla at the very end, just before you STIR in pecans
- we found two cups of pecans to be a little much
- having two cooks in the kitchen is key because otherwise it's very hard to spoon it out fast enough (before it dries in the bowl

For first time divinity makers - we were thrilled!

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I tried to make tonight, which was a bad idea because I live in New Orleans and it's raining outside. I had a problem before I even really got started...just wondering how the sugar mixture doesn't burn in the pot while heating up to temp when it specifically says not to stir. I did have kids running everywhere while I was trying to work, but one minute I was 200 degrees and in the next second it was at like 275 and completely ruined.

I rated it excellent because I expect when I actually get it to work properly, it will be great. This was my favorite Christmas candy when I was a child, made by my great-grandmother, and I'd love to be able to share with my own children.

Any hints?

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i had an old receipe and fail 2 out 5 times. tried this receipe it worked fine
but i had to beat it for 20 min. it was quite good.