Im looking for a sugar cookies glaze?

Im looking for a recipe for a glaze that I can dip or pour over my sugar cookies to make a semi hard surface that I then can pipe frosting on for more details. The one I have works well but doesn’t taste very good. Who wants a cookie that’s pretty but has a bad flavor. Open to any ideas, recipes and suggestions. Even a regular frosting recipe that gets hard. I’m getting ready to make Easter cookies on Saturday and need help. Thank you!

An Italian Easter cookie, we used to call them “rosettes”, simply b/c they looked like roses, but they are not

the fried things – You make a dough, roll it like little snakes, roll them on your finger like a spring, then bake. I remember using orange zest and almond extract. Looking through Gram’s recipes, I can’t make heads nor tails of it, can anyone help? I’d like to surprise my Dad for Easter. Thanks!

How do you keep frosted sugar cookies from looking sloppy?

I am making easter sugar cookies and whenever I frost sugar cookies they never look like I imagine. They look all sloppy with messy edges and are spread unevenly. I would like them to be able to look like this:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/40/122247396_b970abed79.jpg

Any tips?