“Good grief,” Charlie Brown might say if he heard about some yummy, but not-so-good-looking cookies, making the rounds once again this Christmas. “He’s at it again, Snoopy.”

“What do you mean, Charlie Brown?”

“That ‘Peanuts’ sculptor, Stan Pawlowski, is baking his ugly but tasty cookies again at Christmas.”

“That’s OK, Charlie. They may be ugly, but they sure taste delicious.”

If they weren’t fictional, that’s certainly how it’d go in the land of Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the rest of the “Peanuts” gang — though they would definitely not turn away the delectable treats.

And the gang would be among hundreds of Pawlowski’s other (real) friends who enjoy the chocolate chip cookies the Long Beach sculptor bakes every Christmas season. One of those friends is Jean Schulz, wife of the late Charles Schulz, the world’s best-known cartoonist and creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip characters.

“Stan, I think the cookies are just perfect this year,” she wrote in a note to Pawlowski earlier this month. “They are chewy and stable. I don’t know what it is, but it has been so much fun to show them off to everyone and have them rave and agree that they are the best yet. Signed, Jeannie.”

This year, Pawlowski said, he has baked more than 2,000 cookies, which he has given out to friends, both in person and via snail mail.

It’s a tradition he started 28 years ago or so as a way to give a special gift to friends and strangers.

“When I was younger and could get around better, I would drive around and give cookies out to people wherever I went, like to the post office, the bank, even the grocery market,” Pawlowski, 72, told me last week as I chewed on one of his delicious cookies. “I kept cookies in Ziploc bags and would pass them out to homeless people and others I would meet.”

Now, friends come to his house in Long Beach.

“Last night, my cardiologist and his wife came to pick up their cookies,” he said. “My cookies come with a warning to persons who have not had them before. I made sure they read it before they had one. I don’t want to be responsible for any addictions.”

Pawlowski was referring to this good-natured “warning” he hands out with his “Ugly But Tasty Chocolate Chip Cookies”: “Eating these chocolate chip cookies can lead to an uncontrollable desire to eat many more of them. There is a good possibility of lifelong addiction. Side effects may cause pure joy. They may also spark childhood memories of mom’s best.”

Pawlowski’s cookies are based on a secret recipe he has locked up in a safe in his East Long Beach home.

“I don’t even tell my daughter the recipe,” he told me. “She knows how to get it when I’m gone.”

Pawlowski said he spent about a year working on the recipe before he got the cookies just the way he liked them.

“I made them because I couldn’t find a chocolate chip cookie I really liked,” Pawlowski said. “I never really intended for it to become what it has — a holiday tradition to so many people.”

He bakes the cookies at his home, which doubles as a veritable museum of “Peanuts” and Disney memorabilia.

Pawlowski, a garrulous storyteller, in addition to being a world-class sculptor, loves telling the story of how he met Charles Schulz in 1981.

Pawlowski had been creating products for several cartoon character companies, including Walt Disney, when a friend said he should show his wares to Schulz. He met Schulz in Santa Rosa, where the cartoonist lived.

“I will never forget when Charles Schulz first walked into the conference room,” Pawlowski said. “He liked my samples, and he took me to lunch at the Warm Puppy, the restaurant inside his ice arena.”

Schulz died in Santa Rosa at 77. Just hours later, his last comic strip appeared — ending its 50-year run. Santa Rosa then commissioned a bronze statue as a tribute to the famous cartoonist.

Who, they asked, should do the sculpture?

There was little doubt. The city quickly selected Pawlowski, who did a glistening bronze statue of Charlie Brown with his arm around his beloved beagle, Snoopy, who is holding a rose in his paw. The 4-foot statue shows a smiling Charlie Brown and Snoopy standing on top of stone and surrounded by an octagonal fence with eight bronze discs depicting other scenes and characters from the Peanuts comic strip. It’s located in the middle of Santa Rosa’s historic Railroad Square.

At the unveiling, Jean Schulz said her husband wanted people to feel happy.

“I think everyone who will see the sculpture will feel happy,” she said.

Pawlowski had two statues cast, one residing in Santa Rosa and the other in Pawlowski’s Long Beach home.

Pawlowski is proud of the fact that he is a Long Beach native, born in 1952 at Seaside Hospital, now MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center. He grew up in Wilmington, where he started working with clay figures when he was 6 years old. He said he began crafting “Peanuts” characters when he was 17, using newspaper strips as a model to create characters in clay.

He never imagined that he would someday create work for Schulz.

Above his computer is a sign saying: “Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.”

Pawlowski loves people and, like Charles Schulz, loves making them happy.

“I am just someone who likes to bring smiles to people’s faces,” he said, “with my sculptural artwork and my cookies,.”

And Snoopy would add:

“Charlie Brown, let’s get some more of those ugly, delicious cookies by Stan. Happiness is a warm, chewy chocolate chip cookie.”