re: Homebrew: Extract IPA is too dark

Why do you think it is too dark? Obviously the golden DME is the ingredient that darkened it up some for you. But to be honest there is no reason that those two extracts would cause a beer to be "dark" imo. You certainly could have scorched the extract in the boil by either boiling too long or burning it on the bottom of the boil kettle.

And I am not sure what you mean by creamy aroma.