Why use cream cheese flavor over traditional cream cheese? The taste is great, it saves you money and it needs no refrigeration in iced cakes. Contains milk. Gluten free and sugar free. Emulsions are water-based alternatives to extracts. The flavor is micro encapsulated in natural stabilizers and suspended in water. The encapsulation enables the flavor not to lose its integrity when exposed to high heat. That means emulsions give better results than extracts. Emulsions are almost always the professional bakers' flavor of choice over alcohol-based extracts. Emulsions have a more potent, robust flavor. They won't "bake-out" when exposed to heat. Use emulsions to flavor cookies, cakes, sweet breads and pastries, frostings and glazes, fondants, fillings, cream centers and other confectionery items. If your recipe calls for 1 teaspoon extract, substitute 1 teaspoon emulsion. Use slightly less in recipes that do not call for baking or heating, such as frostings or cream centers, or add to taste.