The present invention relates to an edible oil-in-water emulsion composition, a method for the preparation of the edible oil-in-water emulsion composition, and use of the edible oil-in-water composition. The edible water-in-oil emulsion preferably is a multipurpose dairy cream alternative composition. It was found that edible oil-in-water emulsion compositions comprising sucrose fatty acid esters mainly containing sucrose monostearate or sucrose monopalmitate or a combination thereof, are highly suitable as multipurpose dairy cream alternative compositions. In particular, edible oil-in-water emulsion compositions according to this invention are both whippable and do not aggregate or coagulate in hot acidic media.