I went a different route. All that really needs to happen is setting the class name of the widget to “widget_recent_entries” and it will pick up all the styling from the posts widget. So I just copied the widgets code and created a new custom widget.
Attached is forum-widget.txt. If you want to use it, put it in your child theme (change .txt to .php) and call it in your functions.php file.
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require_once( trailingslashit( get_stylesheet_directory() ) . 'whateverdirectoryyouwantinkleo-child/forum-widgets.php' );
Its only for (bbpress) Recent Topics, but you can do the same with the other ones. Just rename the classes and functions by putting custom_ in front of them. And changing
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'classname' => 'custom_widget_display_topics'
to
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'classname' => 'widget_recent_entries',
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