Ladle shortly to go round top of plate (5)
I believe the answer is:
spoon
'ladle' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'shortly to go round top of plate' is the wordplay.
'shortly' becomes 'soon' (synonyms).
'to go round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'top of' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'plate' is 'p'.
'soon' going around 'p' is 'SPOON'.
(Other definitions for spoon that I've seen before include "Kitchen implement" , "cooking utensil" , "may create a stir" , "Ancient club" , "feeder" .)