almond croissants

So I ended up going to bed at midnight then waking up the next day to tackle the croissants only to discover in the recipe that before baking you must leave the croissants to rise either overnight in the fridge or in a warming pantry for 1 - 2 hours and I didn't have overnight or a warming pantry so I just had to make do with a warm oven for 2 hours. That didn't work. So just to make do I baked them anyway till they were golden brown and now I have little random pastry things!