Cinnamon Bubble Loaf

I love breakfast! And, sweet breakfasts are almost always better than savory. I have been wanting to make this for a while, but I am never willing to get up two rises before breakfast to make it, until I realized that I can just have it rise overnight in the fridge.

Loaf:
1/2 cup warm water
1 pkg. active dry yeast
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. salt
3 tbsp. soft butter or margarine
1 egg
2 1/2 cups sifted all purpose flour

Topping:
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 cup seedless raisins
1/4 cup finely chopped walnuts or pecans

1. Make loaf: If possible, check temperature of warm water with thermometer. Sprinkle yeast over water in large bowl; stir until dissolved.
2. Add sugar, salt, butter, egg, and 1 1/2 cups flour; beat, with wooden spoon, until smooth--about two minutes.
3. Gradually add remaining flour; mix in last of it with hand until dough leaves side of bowl.
4. Turn out dough  onto lightly floured board. Cover with bowl; let rest 5 minutes. Knead until smooth--about 5 minutes.
5. Place in lightly greased large bowl; turn to bring up greased side. Cover with towel; let rise in warm place (85F), free from drafts, until double in bulk--about 1 hour.
6. Punch down dough. Turn out onto lightly floured pastry cloth. SHape into roll 12 inches long. Cut into 20 pieces. SHape each into a smooth ball. Place 10 balls in bottom of well greased 9x5x3 inch loaf pan.
7 or the topping: Brush balls in pan with 2 tablespoons butter; sprinkle with 2 tablespoons sugar, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 2 tablespoons raisins, and 2 tablespoons nuts. Arrange remaining 10 balls on top. Brush with rest of butter; sprinkle with rest of sugar, cinnamon, raisins, and nuts.
8. Cover with towel; let rise in warm place (85F) free from drafts, until double in bulk-1 to 1 1/4 hours. Or over night in the fridge works great, too! Just make sure to get it out of the fridge a little before you want to bake it so it can warm back up to roomish temperature. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 375F.
9. Bake loaf 30 to 40 minutes. With spatula loosen sides of loaf. Invert on serving plate let stand 1 minute before removing pan. Serve slightly warm. Break rolls apart with 2 forks.

Well, it was underwhelming. I was hoping for something more along the lines of mom's cinnamon biscuits/monkey bread. In my opinion there was very little butter/sugar mixture on the rolls.

Nevertheless, I am going to try it again and actually dunk the balls in butter and then roll them in cinnamon sugar before putting them in the pan.