This wonderful widget displays links to recent posts made on your google powered blogger blog. It works great in your blog's sidebar. If you don't like only being able to display 5 of your recent posts you can now show as many as you want. The default is set to 10 posts, but all you need to do is change the number 10 within the code to any desired amount.

Step 1:
Click
Layout>Add a Gadget>HTML/Javascript

Step 2:
Copy and paste these code

<script style="" src="http://jimmyjackbob.googlepages.com/Recent_posts_widget_blogger.js"></script><script style="">var numposts = 10;var showpostdate = false;var showpostsummary = false;var numchars = 100;var standardstyling = true;</script><script src="http://widgetsforfree.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published&alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentposts"></script>