Back home, I'll follow cake with pasta (10)
I believe the answer is:
tortellini
'pasta' is the definition.
(tortellini is a kind of pasta)
'back home i'll follow cake' is the wordplay.
'back' is a reversal indicator.
'home' becomes 'in' ('he's home' can mean 'he's in').
'follow' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'cake' becomes 'torte' (torte is a kind of cake**).
'in'+'ill'='inill'
'inill' reversed gives 'llini'.
'llini' put after 'torte' is 'TORTELLINI'.
'with' is the link.
(Other definitions for tortellini that I've seen before include "Small filled pasta cases" , "Pasta is called for" , "pasta dish" , "Italian dish" , "Rings for food" .)