The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 plus 4 letter word RUM BABA
I've seen this crossword clue in The Sunday Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result RUM BABA
- Dance half of dance with pudding
- Cake produced by graduate following dance
- Alcoholic treat sailor knocked back after dance
- Sweet bachelor breaking into a dance
- Syrupy fare that could be Abba
- Dessert made by graduate after dance
- Rich cake prepared with spirit by spiritual leader
- Dance with bachelor, a pudding full of booze
- Dessert announced to be for Sweeney Todd?
- Sweet dance one studied
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The straight part
We know that "Alcoholic treat" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case alcoholic treat = rum baba.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.