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Old Fashioned DIVINITY Christmas Candy
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Mar 14, 2025
Old Fashioned DIVINITY Christmas Candy Only 6 Ingredients Today's Recipe: https://catherinesplates.com/old-fashioned-divinity-candy/ **Click here to see my recipe blog: https://catherinesplates.com NEW: To purchase my Dessert Cookbook, click link https://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/10034701/10feb0fb4a14a171cfaeed6889d6656eab1a0016 *To purchase my cookbook vol 1, click link https://www.blurb.com/b/9452561-catherine-s-plates **To purchase my cookbook vol 2, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/10367334-catherine-s-plates-cookbook ***To purchase my cookbook vol 3, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/11248440-catherine-s-plates-3rd-edition-2022 ***My Amazon StoreFront https://www.amazon.com/shop/catherinesplates (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) ***Follow me on Social Media Facebook @ https://facebook.com/catherinesplates/ YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuvgtfqhHTKI5kymcLKeyxg Pinterest @ https://www.pinterest.com/CatherinesPlates/ TikTok @ https://www.tiktok.com/@catherinesplates Rumble @ https://rumble.com/c/c-1642522
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hi everyone welcome back to Catherine's
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plates I told y'all it's going to be a
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busy month full of delicious ideas for
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Christmas time today is no different I'm
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bringing you oldfashioned divinity candy
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it is a classic treat for Christmas time
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before we get to the good stuff you got
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to make sure you have everything ready
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that you're going to need to make this
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candy it's very crucial cuz once you
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start you can't stop okay you cannot
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start measuring things you got to keep
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going I'm going to show you the
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equipment you're going to need and it's
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simple stuff and then I'm going to show
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you the ingredients that we're going to
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measure out and have ready there's only
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six ingredients plus whatever you want
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to top your Divinity with all right
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without further Ado let's go to the back
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let me show you everything and then I'm
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going to start because I cannot stop
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you're going to need need a stand mixer
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with a whisk attachment which I have
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right here now you can also use an
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electric hand mixer if you want it's
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just going to take a little more work
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with that and using some arm Flex for it
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you're going to need a medium saucepan
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preferably one that's kind of heavy
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bottomed and then you're going to need a
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candy thermometer if you don't have a
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candy thermometer you can use a regular
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kitchen
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thermometer you'll just be checking your
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mixture a lot more
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this way you can keep an eye on where
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the heat level is on your
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mixture you're going to need some sheet
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pans I've got two of them here they're
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pretty large size and I just covered
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them with some parchment paper you can
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use a cookie scoop but about 1 and 1/2
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in or you're going to use two large
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spoons and that will help you make the
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candy shapes you're going to need a
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pastry brush and just a little thing of
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water now this is everything that you
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need to have ready ready now we're going
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to go over the
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ingredients okay welcome to my baking
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shop I'm just
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kidding I don't have a baking shop in my
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kitchen we're going to measure out two
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cups of white granulated sugar now
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instead of putting it into a separate
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bowl or whatever I'm going to go ahead
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and just put it in my medium saucepan
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that way it's ready cuz that's the first
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ingredient that we're going to be
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cooking so I'm going to measure out two
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cups woo Who doesn't love
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candy
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one and two there we go the next
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ingredient you're going to have to have
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measured
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out light corn syrup you want to make
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sure that it's clear and not the dark
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stuff cuz that'll make your candy look
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dark and we don't want that now I'm
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using my fancy Dancy little tool here to
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measure
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out that way I can push this up and
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it'll get everything out of the cup here
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if you're going to use a separate
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measuring cup I would spray the inside
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of it with
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some non-stick cooking spray that'll
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help that syrup get out there we go we
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got that measured
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out we're going to need half a cup of
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very cold water now I pulled that out of
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the
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refrigerator we're going to measure out
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one teaspoon of vanilla extract
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and then we need to separate two eggs
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cuz we need two egg whites now try to
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bring these to room temperature if you
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can just going to crack it on the edge
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we're going to split the egg in
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half as much as you
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can and go back and forth
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to get all the yolk
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out I tell you the eggs that we've been
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getting lately have been very
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thin all right just crack it split it in
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half hold that yolk in there let all the
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white go into your dish
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here and then you can go back and forth
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and let the edges of the egg
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shell break that white off of the yolk
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just like that
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hope y'all can see that pretty
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good and then we're
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done those are two egg whites you want
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to make sure there are no yolks in there
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or it'll be very hard to make your
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mering that we're going to be using now
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to top your Divinity at the end I'm
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going to be using bcan halves or you can
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use chopped bcans or you can use
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sprinkles or other types of candy to put
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on
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top did you know that Divinity works
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well with less humidity I got up very
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early this morning because we live in
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Southeast Texas but it was chilly this
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morning like 40° so I'm hoping that's a
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great temperature to have outside less
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humidity on the inside so that'll really
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help set up our Divinity so just check
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your weather when you want to make
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Divinity okay let's get started remember
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in that Medium saucepan I put in two
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cups C of white granulated sugar now I'm
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going to go ahead and attach my candy
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thermometer to the pan you can adjust it
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on the back side you don't want it to
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touch the bottom of your pan so you want
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it about an eighth of an inch maybe a qu
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of an inch from the bottom now we got
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our sugar in we're going to add in our
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corn syrup which was half a cup right
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into the sugar see how it just comes
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right out I'm going to get a nine
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knife and just scrape that
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off cuz you know that's candy right
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there you don't want to leave any of
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that behind and then we're going to add
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in half a cup of cold
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water we're going to put it on a medium
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heat now what we're going to do is allow
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this to heat up we'll stir this around
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get it nice and mixed up we'll keep an
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eye on our thermometer here we're
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looking to get to the hard ball stage
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which is 250 to
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260 and what you want to have ready a
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little small bowl of water let me move
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my vanilla out of the way and pastry
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brush and that's a very important step
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cuz you do not want crystals forming on
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your pot and going right into your
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candy little bit crunchy candy you don't
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want that and what you want to do is
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take your pastry brush with the water on
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it and just go along the
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edges that's where we're at right now on
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the candy thermometer I'm going to go
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ahead and add my egg whites that we have
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right here that we already split go
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ahead and put them into our stand mixer
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and get those ready to
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go takes
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about five six minutes to get these into
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a hard Peak
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okay we're going to beit our egg whites
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until we get to a solid Peak on them so
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I'm going to turn my stand mixer all the
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way over to a tin and let that do its
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job all right let's see what we got yeah
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that's what we're looking for our liquid
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sugar mixture is almost to the hard ball
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stage probably have one more minute make
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sure you keep stirring cuz it's going to
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stick to the bottom
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there okay I don't know if y'all can see
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that but we've reached the hard ball
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stage so we're going to turn it off
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we're going to take our thermometer off
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the
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pan turn my mixer back onto the full
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setting as high as we can go and then
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we're going to drizzle
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in our sugar mixture
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we're going to add in our one teaspoon
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of vanilla and then we're going to let
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this mix for 10 to 15 minutes until the
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candy holds its
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shape okay that looks really good in
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there we're going to lift this up
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up pull out my whisk attachment you want
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to work quick with this candy cuz it's
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going to set up very fast I'm going to
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take some cooking spray I'm going to
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spray my 1 and 1/2 inch cookie scoop
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over the sink that way I don't get it on
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everything get it nice and
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coated then I'm going to go in now I've
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got my pan already ready with the
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parchment paper so we're going to go
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in like that
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much we're going to place it on our
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pan and scoop it out now as we're doing
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that I'm going to take a pecan half that
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I have over here I'm going to place it
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right on the center and then just kind
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of push down W doesn't that look pretty
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all right I'm going to keep doing
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this and use the
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pecan push it down there we go now if
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you need help you can get a
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spoon just make sure that you keep
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moving quick on these
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they definitely look like they have a
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marshmallow nougat kind of fudgy texture
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but very
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light here they
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are that's how much it
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made let's see 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
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12 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 24 256 made 27 of
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these beautiful delicious Divinity and
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oldfashioned Christmas candy they're not
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ready to eat yet now it's going to take
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several hours at least to set up dry out
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and be a delicious divinity candy so
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I'll be back I'm going to give this a
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try for
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you there's my oldfashioned Divinity
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candy look how that turned out I let
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these dry out for several
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hours I'm going to give one a try for
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you who remembers
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these they're kind of nouy marshmallowy
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that's on the inside kind of cool and
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light on the
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outside there's my bite
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what is Christmas without some
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Divinity we did it you can too okay you
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Christmas Happy New Year we'll see y'all
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on the next episode bye
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