Is eating sweet foods (e.g., cake) after morning kiddush before the meal permitted, and does it require an after-blessing?

ShabbatKiddush

Synopsis

Some have the custom to eat cake or sweets after morning kiddush before washing for the meal. The Aruch HaShulchan records that early authorities disapproved of this practice; if one eats immediately, no separate after-blessing is needed.

Late Acharonim
Lenient
Strict
Lesser cited
Major authority

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