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Cake served with a drink in Burgundy's centre (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gateau

'cake' is the definition.
(I know that gateau is a type of cake)

'a drink in burgundy's centre' is the wordplay.
'drink' becomes 'tea' (tea is a drink).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'centre' indicates the central letters.
The centre of 'burgundy' is 'gu'.
'a'+'tea'='atea'
'atea' placed inside 'gu' is 'GATEAU'.

'served with' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for gateau that I've seen before include "Cake for Pierre" , "named for Black Forest?" , "(French?) cake" , "Calorie-laden cake" , "It's sweet" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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