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Caught in ecstasy, hides cream cakes (7)

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I believe the answer is:

eclairs

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'cakes' is the definition.
(eclair is a type of cake)

'caught in ecstasy hides cream' is the wordplay.
'caught' becomes 'c' (cricket abbreviation).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'ecstasy' becomes 'E' (informal term for the drug).
'hides cream' becomes 'lairs' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'e'+'lairs'='elairs'
'c' inserted into 'elairs' is 'ECLAIRS'.

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(Other definitions for eclairs that I've seen before include "Choux pastries with cream and chocolate icing" , "sticky fingers" , "Cream cakes" , "in which la creme may be found?" , "Elongated cream puffs" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun and The Telegraph.
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