LorAnn Cream Cheese Icing SS Flavor, 1 ounce bottle

This was my first time ever using LorAnn Oils and I've got to say that I'm now a fan. I bought the cream cheese oil to try out in some American buttercream and it's definitely one of the better tasting extracts out there. I've tried different cream cheese extracts and they've all tasted horribly (like cherry medicine). This oil requires a very little amount for it to taste good (1/4 tsp, a little less to taste even) without it going overboard and it was the most similar to cream cheese icing that I could get without using cream cheese. I have very sensitive taste buds, so even with the oil in my buttercream, I was still missing some cream cheese flavor but it was definitely good enough to call cream cheese buttercream. I would definitely recommend this oil and the smell is amazing. You could even add a bit of cream cheese along with less than a 1/4 tsp of the oil to get some more cream cheese flavor and still have a sturdy frosting that crusts and won't melt.

Worked like a charm in my carrot cake cookie sandwiches.

Flavor was good enough.

Heavenly scented and taste outstanding! I'm thinking of trying it in my diffuser, 😆. This stuff smells and tastes so good! Great for making a cream cheese flavored icing without the cream cheese. Amazing 👏 🤩

This tastes just like cream cheese! You need very little to flavor your icing/frosting. Love this for my cottage law home bakery!

The extract is very flavorful. Worked to obtain a cream cheese flavor without adding cream cheese to my icing. Cream cheese makes your icing very soft and at times unable to make designs therefore this extract is perfect to add to your buttercream icing to achieve a cream cheese icing!

When I initially used this I hated it. It had such an awful artificial smell and it didn’t taste like cream cheese to me. Perhaps because I couldn’t get beyond the smell. But after letting my buttercream sit until the next day, that smell was mostly gone and it tasted a more like cream cheese frosting. It’s definitely not exactly like the real thing, but it’ll do when you cannot use real cream cheese.

Bought this to flavor frosting for things that could use the flavor of cream cheese frosting but may not be able to sacrifice the stability of buttercream. It's not a perfect match, but it's a very good approximation. I personally would suggest not adding vanilla to icing containing this because it quickly overpowers the cream cheese flavor -- a small amount of lemon juice helped to cut the fattiness of the butter and bring forward the tangy flavors of cream cheese.