Carol consumes hotchpotch of local baking (10)
I believe the answer is:
sweltering
'baking' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'carol consumes hotchpotch of local' is the wordplay.
'carol' becomes 'sing' (I've seen this before).
'consumes' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'hotchpotch of local' becomes 'welter' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'sing' placed around 'welter' is 'SWELTERING'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sweltering that I've seen before include "getting uncomfortably hot" , "hot and sweaty" , "getting unpleasantly hot" , "Hot and humid" .)