LID Recipe of the Day - Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Frosting

I am admittedly giving in to my need for comfort food today and I just baked a chocolate cake.  This is the same cake I made in 1996 - when Bob and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary and I was on the LID in preparation for the 150 millicuries of radiation.  If memory serves, I swallowed the radiation on Monday, June 10th.  Our wedding anniversary was the Saturday before - the 8th of June.  The cake is awesome - here goes:

Cake:
1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup egg whites (original recipe says to use 2 eggs)
1 cup water (original recipe says to use milk)
1/2 cup vegetable oil (I used canola)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup boiling water

Heat your oven to 350 and grease a 9 x 13 pan with PAM.  Mix dry ingredients together including the sugar.  Mix the wet ingredients except for the boiling water and add to the flour mixture.  Loosely mix until not fully incorporated and still lumpy.  Add the boiling water and fully mix.  Pour into the pan and bake for 35-40 minutes.  While the cake is baking, make the frosting.

Frosting:
1 stick LID safe margarine (Fleischman's dairy and salt free - original recipe calls for butter)
4 squares unsweetened Baker's chocolate
3-4 Tablespoons boiling water (original recipe calls for cold heavy cream)
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 cups confectioner's sugar

Melt the margarine and Baker's chocolate over low heat until smooth.  Remove from heat and add the sugar, vanilla and 2 Tablespoons of the hot water.  Stir to incorporate.  If you need more water, add it until it reaches the consistency of a thick frosting.  Frost the cake when it's removed from the oven - it's OK to frost it hot and right in the same pan you baked it in.

Enjoy!!