With muffins as tasty as these, plates seem somewhat irrelevant.

Method

Step 1: Preheat oven to 190ºC (Gas Mark 5). Combine all dry ingredients. Beat together wet ingredients, combine the two and fold in fruit.

Step 2: Spoon into a greased muffin tin. Bake for 25 minutes or until muffins are golden brown and a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.

Step 3: Mix all glaze ingredients together. Add more water if you like a thinner glaze. For a thick white glaze, add just enough water for the glaze to have a rich consistency to dip the muffins into.

Step 4: Plunge the head of each muffin into the mixture and allow excess to drip back into the bowl. Place muffins on a rack to let glaze set.

From New York Cult Recipes by Marc Grossman (£20, Murdoch Books), out now in hardback at amazon.co.uk

Recipe: Lemon poppyseed muffins