Remains in church with tea for the audience -- and cake (7)
I believe the answer is:
crumpet
'cake' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'remains in church with tea for the audience' is the wordplay.
'remains' becomes 'rump' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'church' becomes 'CE' (Church of England).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'for the audience' shows a homophone (sound like) (how an audience might hear it).
'tea' sounds like 't'.
'rump' put inside 'ce' is 'crumpe'.
'crumpe'+'t'='CRUMPET'
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for crumpet that I've seen before include "teatime treat!" , "Thick soft porous cake - attractive person" , "Light, soft yeast cake" , "Muffin" , "Toasted teacake" .)