LorAnn Oils Cream Cheese Bakery Emulsion: True Essence, Ideal for Boosting Fruit Tones in Cakes, Cookies & Desserts, Gluten-Free, Keto-Friendly, Extract Substitute Essential for Your Kitchen, 4 Oz

My husband is allergic to cheese and milk (but not to high quality butter), and with a little tweaking, this emulsion makes a very good tasting cream-cheese frosting. To develop the cream cheese flavor, the frosting must be made with butter, with about 1/4 teaspoon of salt added (no, there is not enough salt in salted stick butter, you must add more in). I tried making it with both Imperial Margarine and with Country Crock margarine, and the margarine was the problem, the flavor is not rich enough. If one is attempting to cut calories, this may not be a good option, but if you cannot tolerate cheese or milk, and miss rich tasting, really good frosting on your carrot, spice or apple cakes, this is great!

Why did you pick this product vs others?:Love the flavor

Great value for the money as a little goes a long way as it is highly concentrated and very strong!! The quality is amazing and it smells so great!! Sealed great for shipping so no worries that it will come damaged. I use this in my sugar cookies and my strawberry shortcake is one my top sellers as this makes it so authentic it is hard to replicate!

Very strong. I bought this to make coffee creamer (I got the recipe from “the craftologist”). It was a red velvet coffee creamer. Very strong flavor. Didn’t really taste the red velvet as much as the cream cheese flavor.

Love the product

I bought this to add to royal icing to give a cream cheese flavor. I don't know if this is only supyto be used for baking or what, but this was awful. It didn't smell anything like cream cheese. It nearly ruined the entire batch of royal icing. Luckily I just added a little so I was able to add more royal icing mix to save the batch, but this was my worst icing. So disappointed due to all the good reviews

Nothing will ever come close to true cream cheese, but being in a state where I'm not allowed to sell products with cream cheese frosting, this is (by far) the best alternative. I'm still having to toy with the amount I add to get a good flavor, but there are other factors that can attribute to that. So yes, it does have that "fake" flavor to it, but that's what flavors usually are: fake. I'm glad to have it and use it for pumpkin roll season when it comes; or when someone wants lemon or carrot/spice cake. Thank you LorAnn Oils!!!Great company to order from too. Super fast shipping.

I've used other LorAnn products and was expecting more out of this one. It has a bitter, off-putting smell and unfortunately tastes the same. I used this in American buttercream in place of "real" cream due to extreme heat of summer. While it did hold up better, the smell and taste was not good. I was embarrassed to serve this but didn't have time to replace the icing. If you know what butter extract smells like, it's very similar. Would not recommend this product at all.