What's the best way to stick sprinkles to cookies without icing? I am making sugar cookies that I want to decorate with sprinkles, but I don't really want to mess about with making royal icing, which is what the recipe calls for.  In the past, I've used clear corn syrup as a flavourless sprinkle "glue" and it's what I'd use now, except that I haven't seen it in the grocery store here in the Netherlands.  

Are there any other easy to make options for "sprinkle glue"?  I've seen references on the web to using some sort of glaze, but in my experience, this wouldn't set up hard enough to hold sprinkles to a cookie.  Maybe it needs special proportions for this application?
If corn syrup works, it seems to me that simple syrup (i.e. a saturated solution of sugar and water) ought to work, too.